Embellish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.
  • v. To add ornamental or fictitious details to: a fanciful account that embellishes the true story.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
  • v. add details to
  • v. make more beautiful
  • v. be beautiful to look at
  • Verb Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    decorate    beautify    bedeck    ornament    garnish    enrich    adorn    deck    illustrate    vary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hellish    relish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts