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/kˈʊʃənɪŋ/ /kˈʊʃnɪŋ/ Listen

noun

cushioning n. Soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.

Synonyms: padding.

verb

Cushion v. t. (past & past part. cushioned; pres. part. cushioning)

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. "Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity."

To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

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Etymology of 'Cushioning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cushioning" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the forward cockpit where the metal fuselage was melted. The leather cushioning around the edge was black and charred. Culver's helmet had protected him, but half of his face was seared as if it had been struck by a ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin