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UPHOLSTER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they upholster ... he / she / it upholsters
Past simple: upholstered
Past participle: upholstered
-ing form: upholstering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "upholster" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Domain category:
cabinetry; cabinetwork (the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
upholsterer (a craftsman who upholsters furniture)
upholstery (the craft of upholstering)
upholstery (covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture)
