embellish meaning

Verb: embellish  em'belish

1. Add details to
   - embroider, pad, lard, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], blow up, dramatize, dramatise [Brit] 
2. Be beautiful to look at
   - deck, adorn, decorate, grace, beautify 
3. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
   - decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, beautify 
4. Make more beautiful
   - fancify, beautify, prettify

Derived forms: embellished, embellishes, embellishing

See also: embellishment

Type of: alter, ameliorate, amend, amplify, be, better, change, exaggerate, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, improve, magnify, meliorate, modify, overdraw, overstate

Encyclopedia: Embellish

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1. can you embellish your refusal just a little bit?
2. we embellish our room with new rugs, lamps, and pictures.
3. it caused him to seek to embellish his most incontestable achievements.
4. nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow.
5. it seemed to her very proper that mr. townsend's destined bride should wish to embellish her mind by a foreign tour.