Meaning of EMBELLISH
| Pronunciation: | | em'belish
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- [v] make more beautiful
- [v] add details to
- [v] make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
- [v] be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
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| | Synonyms: | | adorn, adorn, aggrandise, aggrandize, beautify, beautify, beautify, blow up, deck, decorate, decorate, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, grace, grace, lard, ornament, pad, prettify |
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| | Antonyms: | | uglify | | |
| | See Also: | | alter, ameliorate, amend, amplify, applique, bard, be, bead, become, bedeck, bedight, bedizen, begild, bejewel, beset, bespangle, better, blazon, braid, broider, caparison, change, color, colour, curry, deck, dress, dress, dress ship, dress up, dress up, emblazon, embroider, enamel, encrust, engild, exaggerate, festoon, filet, fillet, flag, fledge, flight, foliate, fret, fringe, garland, garnish, gild, glaze, glorify, groom, hang, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, illuminate, illustrate, improve, incrust, inlay, jewel, lacquer, landscape, magnify, meliorate, neaten, ornament, overdraw, overstate, panel, pipe, polish, prank, redecorate, scallop, shine, slick up, smarten up, smock, smooth, smoothen, spangle, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, stucco, suit, tart up, tinsel, titivate, tittivate, trim, vermiculate, window-dress, wreathe | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Em*bel"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embellished}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Embellishing}.] [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}.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, whitewash |
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