Meaning of DECORATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'deku`reyt
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- [v] provide with decoration; "dress the windows"
- [v] make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
- [v] award a mark of honor, as a medal, to
- [v] be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
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| | Synonyms: | | adorn, adorn, beautify, beautify, deck, dress, embellish, embellish, grace, grace, ornament |
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| | See Also: | | alter, applique, arrange, award, bard, be, bead, bedeck, bedight, bedizen, begild, bejewel, beset, bespangle, blazon, braid, broider, caparison, change, color, colour, deck, dress, dress ship, dress up, emblazon, embroider, enamel, encrust, engild, festoon, filet, fillet, flag, fledge, flight, foliate, fret, fringe, garland, garnish, gild, glaze, hang, illuminate, illustrate, incrust, inlay, jewel, lacquer, landscape, ornament, panel, pipe, prank, redecorate, scallop, set up, smock, spangle, stucco, tart up, tinsel, trim, vermiculate, wreathe | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dec"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decorated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Decorating}.] [L. decoratus, p. p. of decorare, fr.
decus ornament; akin to decere to be becoming. See {Decent}.]
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary;
to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the
person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with
flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to
decorate a hero with honors.
Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets
decorated her arms. --Thackeray.
Syn: To adorn; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace. See
{Adorn}.
{Decorated style} (Arch.), a name given by some writers to
the perfected English Gothic architecture; it may be
considered as having flourished from about a. d. 1300 to
a. d. 1375.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are decorating an area means a favorable turn in business or studies and increased social pleasures. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accouter, add, adjoin, adorn, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appoint, array, attach, beautify, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, burden, caparison, cite, color, complicate, conjoin, convolute, crown, crown with laurel, dandify, deck, deck out, dizen, do honor, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, encumber, enrich, equip, festoon, fig out, fix up, flourish, furbish, furnish, garnish, gild, glamorize, glue on, grace, gussy up, hitch on, honor, infix, involve, join with, load with ornament, ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, paint, paste on, pay regard to, pay tribute, plus, postfix, praise, prank, prank up, preen, prefix, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, put with, redecorate, redo, refurbish, render honor to, renovate, restore, saddle with, set off, set out, slap on, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, unite with, varnish, wallpaper |
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