Embellish \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
embellish
v 1: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, aggrandize,
aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]
2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables
everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, beautify]
3: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
"Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for
the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament,
beautify]
4: make more beautiful [syn: beautify, prettify] [ant: uglify]
WordNet (r) 2.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, whitewash
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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