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embellish

3 syllables
verb
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As a verb, embellish means make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation.

Meanings of embellish

4 meanings

verb

  1. To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.

    “The old book cover was embellished with golden letters”

  2. To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.

  3. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

    “to embellish a story, the truth”

  4. Add details to

    Similar: embroider, pad, lard, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for embellish →
verb: add details to
embroiderpadlardaggrandizeaggrandiseblow updramatizedramatise
verb: be beautiful to look at
deckadorndecorategracebeautify
verb: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
decorateadorngraceornamentbeautify
verb: make more beautiful
fancifybeautifyprettify

Words that rhyme with embellish

relishhellish

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