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embellish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb embellish has 4 senses
- embellish(v = verb.communication) aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad - add details to; Array is one way to amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
- embellish(v = verb.stative) adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" is one way to be
- embellish(v = verb.creation) adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" is one way to alter, change, modify
- embellish(v = verb.change) beautify, fancify, prettify - make more beautiful; Array is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived form noun embellishment1
Sample sentence:
They won't embellish the story
Sample sentence:
Holly flowers embellish the halls
Derived form noun embellishment3
Sample sentence:
They embellish the halls with holly
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
embellish, v. t. [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty.].
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.
Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
embellish, v.tr.
1 beautify, adorn.
2 add interest to (a narrative) with fictitious additions.
1 beautify, adorn.
2 add interest to (a narrative) with fictitious additions.
Derivative
embellisher n. embellishment n.
Etymology
ME f. OF embellir (as EN-(1), bel handsome f. L bellus)
THESAURUS
embellish
adorn, apparel, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, caparison, color, convolute, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, emblazon, embroider, enhance, enrich, evolve, exaggerate, falsify, festoon, fig out, finish, fix up, flourish, fudge, furbish, furbish up, garble, garnish, gild, gild the lily, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, improve, involve, load with ornament, magnify, mask, mature, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overlay, overload, overpaint, overstate, pad, paint, perfect, pervert, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, slant, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, strain, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewashROGET THESAURUS
embellish
Ornament
VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.
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