Embellish

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  • transitive verb. To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.
  • transitive verb. To add ornamental or fictitious details to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set off with ornamentation; make beautiful, pleasing, or attractive to the eye or the mind; adorn; decorate; deck: as, to embellish the person with rich apparel; to embellish a garden with shrubs and flowers; a style embellished by metaphors; a book embellished by engravings.
  • Synonyms Ornament, Decorate, etc. (see adorn). See list under decorate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • verb. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
  • verb. add details to
  • verb. make more beautiful
  • verb. be beautiful to look at
  • Word Usage
    "The only circle I didn't embellish is the one that looks like a button - this is actually a tiny scrap of a sunprinted fabric (sunprinted with buttons, that is)."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    hellish  relish  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adorn  adorn  apparel  array  beautify  
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