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English Dictionary: cushioned by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cushioned
adj
  1. softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cushion \Cush"ion\ (k??sh"?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cushioned}
      (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. {Cushioning}.]
      1. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
  
                     Many who are cushioned on thrones would have
                     remained in obscurity.                        --Bolingbroke.
  
      2. To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
  
      3. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
  
      {Cushioned hammer}, a dead-stroke hammer. See under
            {Dead-stroke}.
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