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Meaning embellish meaning

What does embellish mean?
Definitions in simple English

embellish Verb

— When you embellish something, you decorate it. The picture frame was embellished with tiny gold angels. Don't embellish your excuse for being late with tall tales about your mother being sick, your boss you, and your dog running away from home!

embellish

— verb (= embroider) add details to — verb (= fancify) make more beautiful — verb (= decorate, ornament, beautify) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc Decorate the room for the party beautify yourself for the special day — verb (= adorn) be beautiful to look at Flowers adorned the tables everywhere

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embellish English » English

decorate adorn beautify ornament bedeck garnish deck trim grace prettify embroider make beautiful festoon fancify dress pad lard jewel furnish emblazon array window-dress refine make up improve upon illustrate illuminate exaggerate enrich elaborate dress up dramatize dramatise doll up deck out colour color blow up bejewel be embellished aggrandize aggrandise varnish tog to render beautiful titivate tinsel sweeten sugarcoat steer clear of

Topics embellish topics

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States Quality

Decorated

Conjugation embellish conjugation

How do you conjugate embellish?

embellish · verb

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You were told to prepare this feasibility study, not embellish a joke.
They embellish.
It seems not much but it shows its eagerness to embellish the life.
Don' embellish.
They get you to say something then they twist and embellish it, and before you know it.
Let's face it, it's not a profession where you embellish your resume and undergo a series of grueling interviews.
Don't embellish.
You' re on retainer to the Flash. And you, you stupid shit...the crap Jack actually did wasn't enough- you had to embellish it.
There's no need to embellish, Stanley.
Not lie -- just embellish.
In 1933 there was a questionnaire on what could be done to the monuments to embellish Paris.
We all of us sometimes embellish.
They embellish their stories with far too much detail.
But do it fast and don't embellish.
And naturally they like to embellish things with lots of fantasy.
Sometimes you have to embellish to stay centered.
I can't wait to embellish that story.
We'll embellish things and say they fought.
They'd lead you to believe I would embellish this story.
Embellish this festival in her honour and dedicate altars to her!
Okay. But do it fast and don't embellish.
It's a fishing story, you embellish.
His mother wants me to embellish the tomb where he's buried.
I always have to embellish reality.
My inagination cannot embellish perfection.
Yet we might embellish things, with sculpture and gilding.
It's very important not to embellish your order.
Thus, the profits that came from the market of silk and spices were invested to embellish the city with a splendor that, as intended by the Great Counsel of Ten, had to reflect the immense wealth gained from the commercial traffic.
I did embellish a little bit, it is fiction.
But you must remember that journalists do tend to embellish the truth rather.

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Indeed, there is no need to embellish the political message for China.

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