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featherbed

 
Noun featherbed has 1 sense
  1. feather bed, featherbed - a mattress stuffed with feathers
    --1 is a kind of mattress
Verb featherbed has 2 senses
  1. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
    --1 is one way to treat, handle, do by
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. featherbed - hire more workers than are necessary
    --2 is one way to
    hire, engage, employ
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
feather boa feather geranium feather in his cap feather one s nest feather palm feather reed grass feather stage feather star featherbed featherbedding featherbrained feathered featheredge featheredged featherfoil featherhead featheriness

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