Synonyms:
shock_absorber, shock, cushion
Meaning: a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses; "the old car needed a new set of shocks"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
cushion, buffer, soften
Meaning: protect from impact; "cushion the blow"
Usage examples
And a second cushion fell down.
I lit my little pocket-lamp and hung it on the back cushion.
Oh I see said Bernard handing her a cushion well some people do he added kindly."
Whom Lady Tippins, standing on a cushion, surveying through the eye-glass, thus checks off.
I beg you--" But she interrupted him by taking his arm and drawing him to a seat beside her on the cushion.
In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.
"May I sit down near you?" said I with some hesitation; but she encouraged me with a smile and placed a cushion for me.
Now Ruth, while pleased at his wish for the cushion had no idea that he would, if necessary, pay a hundred dollars for it.
"Let papa see where you put it, precious," he said, following her as she tripped across the room and seated herself on a cushion in front of the box.
The child's eyes grew more penetrating; Isabel believed she was doubting her sincerity, and the impression took force from her slowly getting up from her cushion.