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| present tense | |
| I/you/we/they | pad out |
| he/she/it | pads out |
| present participle | padding out |
| past tense | padded out |
| past participle | padded out |
- to put unnecessary information into something to make it longer
Try not to pad your report out with irrelevant statistics.
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