Fill
Pad
Pad verb - Add padding to.
Usage example: pad the seat of the chair
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The Chuck Jones animated Christmas special, which was 25 minutes long, still had to pad its length with original songs and cute cartoon slapstick to fill the timeslot.
Source: Adaptation Expansion -
Then Aretha is running late, leading to them having to stretch and pad everything to fill up the hour.
Source: Filler - For the most part, if the feature presentation wasn't long enough to fill the show's two-hour slot (about one and a half hours when ads are cut), they'd pad it out with shorter clips as well.
Source: Archive Panic
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