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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.

adjective

cushioned adj.

Furnished with a cushion or other device to reduce hardness.

Synonyms: cushiony, padded.

Having the severity reduced; having the unpleasant effects mitigated.

Protected against shock by adding soft padding or other device to reduce deceleration in a collision.

Synonyms: cushioned.

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Etymology of 'Cushioned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cushioned" Quotes from Famous Books

... want to plunge into politics, Io?" Banneker asked, looking down at her as she seated herself in the cushioned ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... that even in the most fashionable shopping thoroughfares certain shops remain brilliantly open, exposing plush-cushioned wares under a glare of electricity in the otherwise darkened street, for an hour or so after all neighbouring establishments have drawn down their blinds and put up their shutters. An interesting point of psychology is ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... being deep and softly cushioned, Clifford fell asleep. Hearing the more regular rise and fall of his breath (which, however, even then, instead of being strong and full, had a feeble kind of tremor, corresponding with the lack of vigor in his character),—hearing these tokens of settled slumber, Hepzibah seized the opportunity ...

— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... her half-a-dozen times, touching her burnished mainpins with the back of his hand, he climbed into the cab and began to gather up his trinkets, his comb and tooth-brush, a small steel monkey-wrench, and a slender brass torch that had been given to him by a friend. Then he sat upon the soft cushioned coach-seat that his wife had coveted, and looked along the hand-railing. He leaned from the cab window and glanced along the twin stubs of steel that passed through the open door and stopped short at the pit, symbolizing the ...

— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... the cushioned seat inert and passive. In the flash of each passing street-light her face showed waxen pale, a cameo against the dark background; so drawn and pinched were her features, that Brencherly, in panic, seized her pulse, in order to assure himself that life had not already ...

— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford

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