Synonyms for gild
verb
To give the appearance of gold
wash, plate, overlay, tinsel, electroplate, overlay with gold, coat with gold leaf.
To adorn
varnish, overlay, lay on color, give glitter to, impart a specious appearance, whitewash, paint in rosy colors.
See gild in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To give a deceptively attractive appearance to:
color, gloss (over), gloze (over), sugarcoat, varnish, veneer, whitewash. Idioms: paper over, put a good face on. See trueTo make superficially more acceptable or appealing:
candy, honey, sugar, sugarcoat, sweeten. See like
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