Synonyms of the word

cushion

• n. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling…
• n. Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
• n. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some…
• n. (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
• v. To furnish with cushions.
• v. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
• v. To absorb or deaden the impact of.
• v. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

buffer

• n. Someone or something that buffs.
• n. (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
• n. (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device…
• n. (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
• n. (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of…
• n. (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
• n. (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
• n. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving…
• n. (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
• n. (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
• n. (figuratively) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
• v. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
• v. (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
• v. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by additing an acid or a base.
• adj. comparative form of buff: more buff.

cushioning

• v. present participle of cushion.

damper

• n. Something that damps or checks.
• n. (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
• adj. comparative form of damp: more damp.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

muffler

• n. (US) Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
• n. A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
• n. A type of scarf.

padding

• v. present participle of pad.
• n. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
• n. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
• n. (military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or…

shock

• n. Sudden, heavy impact.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
• v. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
• v. To give an electric shock.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
• n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass).
• n. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
• v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

soften

• v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
• v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
• v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
• v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.