Embellish
[ɪm'belɪʃ;em-]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Decorate, deck, bedeck, ornament, adorn, beautify, set out, set off.
Checker: Valerie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADORN]
Typist: Rowland
Definition
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.
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Examples
- Mrs. Dowler, you embellish the rooms. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If he used metaphors, it was to illustrate, and not to embellish the truth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We do not embellish the general desolation of a desert much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow, says Richter. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, Something sinister is coming! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. Plato. The Republic.
- He was embellished with spectacles, and wore a white neckerchief. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Two strange travellers embellished one of his rooms. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A brass-plate embellished the great porte-cochère: Pensionnat de Demoiselles was the inscription; and beneath, a nameMadame Beck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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