Definitions for cushion

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cushion cush·ion

Spelling: [koo sh-uh n]

IPA: /ˈkʊʃ ən/

Cushion is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in cushion (chinosu).

Definitions for cushion

noun

1. a soft bag of cloth, leather, or rubber, filled with feathers, air, foam rubber, etc., on which to sit, kneel, or lie.
2. anything similar in form, used to dampen shocks or to prevent excessive pressure or chafing.
3. something to absorb or counteract a shock, jar, or jolt, as a body of air or steam.
4. something that lessens the effects of hardship, distress, or the like:
5. Anatomy, Zoology. any part or structure resembling a cushion.
6. the resilient raised rim encircling the top of a billiard table.
7. a pad worn under the hair by women.
8. a portion of a radio or television script that can be adjusted in length or cut out altogether in order to end the program on time.
9. Ice Hockey, Canadian. the iced surface of a rink.
10. a pillow used in lacemaking.
11. a leather pad on which gold leaf is placed preparatory to gilding.

verb (used with object)

1. to place on or support by a cushion.
2. to furnish with a cushion or cushions.
3. to cover or conceal with, or as if with, a cushion.
4. to lessen or soften the effects of:
5. to suppress (complaints, lamentations, etc.) by quietly ignoring.
6. to check the motion of (a piston or the like) by a cushion, as of steam.
7. to form (steam or the like) into a cushion.

Origin of cushion

1300-50; Middle English cuisshin Anglo-French; Middle French coussin ≪ Latin cōx(a) hip + -īnus -ine¹; see coxa

Examples for cushion

He drew forward the chair left vacant by the cat, and beat up the cushion.

Once you have a bit of a cushion, we take 25% of your money.

You beat up that cushion, an' throw open the best-room door.

But whatever the truth there, Obama still has a cushion in the state.

Ideally, we'd be growing fast now, to cushion against the inevitable slowdown.

I want to make a cushion of my lion's skin, for the weight to rest upon.

She buried her face in the cushion where his shoulder had been.

"Throw me the loan of a trusty Bartly, for a cushion," said he.

I could give my parents this relief, this cushion that they never had.

Obama won it by 10 percent, so he has a cushion here as well.