Definition of embellishes Embellishes
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What does embellishes mean?
Part of speech
🔤- embellishes, verb, present, 3rd person singular of embellish (infinitive).
WordNet
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| embellish - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" | ||
| decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, beautify | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| wreathe form into a wreath | ||
| beset, encrust, incrust assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards" | ||
| braid form or weave into a braid or braids; "braid hair" | ||
| broider, embroider add details to | ||
| stick saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" | ||
| illustrate supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings" | ||
| garland adorn with bands of flowers or leaves; "They garlanded the statue" | ||
| fledge, flight grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" | ||
| bespangle, spangle dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | ||
| foliate grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring" | ||
| flag provide with a flag; "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately" | ||
| bard, barde, caparison, dress up put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" | ||
| bead string together like beads | ||
| pipe trim with piping; "pipe the skirt" | ||
| applique sew on as a decoration | ||
| gild the lily, paint the lily make unnecessary additions to what is already complete | ||
| vermiculate decorate with wavy or winding lines | ||
| smock embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts" | ||
| hang suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste; "hang the venison for a few days" | ||
| prank dress up showily; "He pranked himself out in his best clothes" | ||
| tinsel interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet" | ||
| tart up dress up in a cheap and provocative way | ||
| stucco coat with stucco; "stucco the ceiling" | ||
| redecorate redo the decoration of an apartment or house | ||
| panel decorate with panels; "panel the walls with wood" | ||
| bejewel, jewel adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses" | ||
| filet, fillet cut into filets; "filet the fish" | ||
| scallop shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress" | ||
| bedizen dress up garishly and tastelessly | ||
| dress ship decorate a ship with flags | ||
| garnish, trim, dress adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | ||
| trim adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | ||
| bedeck, bedight, deck knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" | ||
| festoon decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday" | ||
| enamel coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | ||
| inlay decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | ||
| lacquer coat with lacquer; "A lacquered box from China" | ||
| begild, engild, gild decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | ||
| illuminate add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | ||
| blazon, emblazon decorate with heraldic arms | ||
| emblazon, color, colour decorate with heraldic arms | ||
| fringe decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; "fur fringed the hem of the dress" | ||
| fret wear away or erode | ||
| landscape do landscape gardening; "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living" | ||
| ornament be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" | ||
| embellish - make more beautiful | ||
| fancify, beautify, prettify | ||
| uglify make ugly | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document" | ||
| neaten, groom care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed" | ||
| curry, groom, dress treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather" | ||
| window-dress, dress up make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth" | ||
| spiff up, titivate, tittivate, slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce up dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" | ||
| polish, smooth, smoothen, shine bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners" | ||
| become, suit enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" | ||
| embellish - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" | ||
| deck, adorn, decorate, grace, beautify | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| ornament be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" | ||
| embellish - add details to | ||
| embroider, pad, lard, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise | ||
| hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, magnify, amplify to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" | ||
| glorify bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- embellish (Verb)
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. - embellish (Verb)
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- embellish (v. t.)
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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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embellish
To make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. -
embellish
To make more beautiful. -
embellish
To be beautiful to look at.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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embellish
em-bel′ish, v.t. to make beautiful with ornaments: to decorate: to make graceful: to illustrate pictorially, as a book.—n. Embell′isher.—adv. Embell′ishingly.—n. Embell′ishment, act of embellishing or adorning: decoration: ornament. [Fr. embellir, embellissant—em, in, bel, beau, beautiful.]
Part of speech
🔤- embellish, verb, present, 1st person singular of embellish (infinitive).
- embellish, verb (infinitive).
