Beautify
['bjuːtɪfaɪ] or ['bjʊtə'fai]
Definition
(v. t.) To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
(v. i.) To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
Inputed by Jesse
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, BEDIZEN, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, TRICK OUT, set off, make beautiful.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decorate, adorn, ornament, deck
ANT:Deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil, denude, bare,strip
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Examples
- With unremitting zeal he had worked to beautify the interior of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They looked forward with pleasure to the time when, the family house in Gaunt Street being repaired and beautified, they were to meet again in London. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They had stories, camp-fire stories, but not verbally beautified story-recitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- O my sister, passing from me, Out of human care and strife, Leave me, as a gift, those virtues Which have beautified your life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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