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pad sth out

Phrasal Verb with pad
 
 
/pæd/ verb (present participle padding, past tense and past participle padded)

Definition

to make a piece of writing or a speech longer by adding more information to it
(Definition of pad sth out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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