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embellish
verb
1 embellish
2 embellish
3 embellish
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament.
Roget 847:
ornament,
embellish,
enrich,
decorate,
adorn,
bead,
beautify,
adonize†.
smarten,
furbish,
polish,
gild,
varnish,
whitewash,
enamel,
japan,
lacquer,
paint,
grain.
garnish,
trim,
dizen†,
bedizen,
prink†,
prank;
trick out,
fig out;
deck,
bedeck,
dight†,
bedight†,
array;
begawd†,
titivate†;
dress,
dress up;
spangle,
bespangle,
powder;
embroider,
work;
chase,
emboss,
fret,
emblazon;
illuminate;
illustrate.
become
etc.
(accord with)
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Dutch: sieren, decoreren, opsieren, opsmukken, optooien, optuigen, tooien, verfraaien, versieren
4 embellish
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
embellished
Moby thesaurus: adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus, brummagem, civilized, colorable, colored, converted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cultivated, cultured, decked out, decorated, developed, distorted, dressed up, dummy, educated, embroidered, enhanced, enriched, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, feathered, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive, figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery, garbled, garnished, illegitimate, imitation, improved, jeweled, junky, lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, mock, ornamented, ornate, overcharged, overloaded, perfected, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plumed, polished, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, refined, reformed, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spangled, spangly, spurious, studded, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, transfigured, transformed, tricked out, trimmed, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wreathed ... show more.
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