Synonyms of the word

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

aggrandise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of aggrandize.

aggrandize

• v. (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
• v. (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries,…
• v. (transitive) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
• v. (intransitive) To increase or become great.

amplify

• v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
• v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
• v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

bolster

• n. A large cushion or pillow.
• n. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy…
• n. (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the…
• n. A short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the…
• n. The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
• n. The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
• n. The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
• n. (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
• n. (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun…
• v. To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

cushioning

• v. present participle of cushion.

diggings

• n. plural of digging.
• n. (dated) accommodation; lodgings.
• n. In the US, in the same time period: establishment.

digs

• n. plural of dig.
• n. (plural only, colloquial) Lodgings. From diggings.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dig.

domiciliation

• n. The act of domiciliating.
• n. permanent residence.

dramatise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dramatize.

dramatize

• v. To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
• v. To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.

embellish

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

embroider

• v. To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
• v. (figuratively) To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.

exaggerate

• v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

foliage

• n. The leaves of plants.
• n. (short for) Fall foliage.
• n. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

footslog

• n. An instance of footslogging.
• v. (intransitive) to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge.

hyperbolize

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

inkpad

• n. Alternative spelling of ink-pad.

lard

• n. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
• n. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
• v. (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
• v. to smear with fat or lard.
• v. to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
• v. To fatten; to enrich.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
• v. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

launchpad

• n. The surface or structure from which a launch is made.

leaf

• n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
• n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
• n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
• n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
• n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
• n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
• n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms…
• n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise…
• n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
• n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
• n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
• v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

leafage

• n. The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.

lodgings

• n. plural of lodging.
• n. A room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
• n. An official residence.

magnify

• v. (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify,…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
• v. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

overdraw

• v. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft.
• v. (archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
• n. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene,…
• n. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel…

overstate

• v. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

padding

• v. present participle of pad.
• n. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
• n. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
• n. (military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or…

paper

• n. A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by…
• n. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
• n. (uncountable) Wallpaper.
• n. (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
• n. (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses…
• n. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written…
• n. A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review…
• n. A scholastic essay.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (New Zealand) A university course.
• n. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
• n. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
• adj. Made of paper.
• adj. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).
• adj. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper).
• v. (transitive) To apply paper to.
• v. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
• v. (transitive) To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
• v. (transitive) To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).

platform

• n. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
• n. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
• n. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
• n. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
• n. (automotive) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
• n. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific…
• n. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
• n. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
• n. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
• n. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
• n. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform.
• v. (transitive) To place on a platform.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
• v. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform.

plod

• n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
• v. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
• v. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
• v. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
• n. (obsolete) A puddle.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

quarters

• n. plural of quarter.
• n. (plural only, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
• n. (by extension) The place where someone or something lives.
• n. A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
• n. quarterfinals.

slog

• n. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
• n. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
• v. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
• v. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
• v. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

tablet

• n. A slab of clay used for inscription.
• n. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
• n. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
• n. (computing) A graphics tablet.
• n. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
• n. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter.
• v. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

tramp

• n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
• n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
• n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
• v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
• v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• v. To hitchhike.
• v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

trudge

• n. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
• v. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
• v. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.