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/kˈʊʃənd/ Listen

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

... She recoiled and said she could go in a car; but the cars were two blocks away. "Kindly permit me to see you safely home," he said. "You have had a terrible fright, and are in no condition to walk." At all events, she was in no condition to rebel, and was glad to sink back into the cushioned corner of the hansom. "I'll have to trouble you for the street and number," said he, apologetically, as he ...

— A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King

... the filmy ferns To woo the clear wave bent; And cushioned mosses to the stone Their ...

— Andromeda and Other Poems • Charles Kingsley

... Cushioned at the Queen's feet and upon her knee Finding glory for mine head,—still, nearly shamed Am I, the King, to bend and kiss with sharp Breath the olive-pink of sandaled toes between; Or lift me high to the magnet of a gaze, dusky, Like the pool when ...

— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson

... door of Abraham Lord's cottage to take a farewell of 'th' little lass.' About eight o'clock the doctor drove up, and in a few moments Milly was carried in his and her father's strong arms and gently laid in the cushioned carriage, and then slowly driven away from the home which now for the first time in her life she was leaving. The eyes of the onlookers were as moist as the dewy herbage on which they stood, and many a voice trembled in ...

— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather

... been so smooth that she had never felt the need of its consolations, and, consequently, had never analysed it in any way. Doubt had never entered into her mind, because her creed seemed to suit her circumstances so admirably. The well-dressed congregation, the well-trained choir, the cushioned seats and reserved pews, the suave, optimistic rector, and deferential curates—these were all part of a nicely balanced state of society which kept motor-cars, or at least broughams, and paid its tradesmen's bills by cheque on the first ...

— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt

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