Embellish synonyms and antonyms

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Ornament is defined as to decorate or make beautiful.

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To lend beauty to:

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To furnish (a ship, etc.) with a deck

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decorate (related)

To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.

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To adapt (a story or literary work) for dramatic presentation, as in a theater or on television or radio.

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To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

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To become beautiful

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To cover with decorations; adorn

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To display conspicuously or publicly.

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To make or become bright or brighter.

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Color charge.

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(Military, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.

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To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.

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To decorate with or as if with a raised design:

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To ornament (fabric) with a design using special decorative stitches

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To improve the quality or condition of

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To adorn, ornate more richly.

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To think, speak, or write of as greater than is really so; magnify beyond the fact; overstate

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To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.

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To furnish with decorations

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To insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.

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To increase or have the power to increase the size or volume of an image or a sound.

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To apply shoe polish to shoes.

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uglify (antonym)

(Intransitive) To become ugly.

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simplify (antonym)

To reduce to fundamental parts.

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mar (antonym)

To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.

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spoil (antonym)

To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]

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disfigure (antonym)

Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

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To decorate or adorn; especially, to decorate a Christmas tree.

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(Music) To embellish with grace notes.

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(Idiomatic) To begin; to cause; to initiate.

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beautiful (related)

To furnish with decorations

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make more beautiful

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To make pretty or prettier, especially in a superficial or insubstantial way.

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To line or stuff with soft material.

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(Intransitive) To increase or become great.

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(British) Alternative form of aggrandize.

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(Intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.

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Alternative spelling of dramatize.

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juxtapose (related)

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embellishment (related)

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elaborately (related)

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To decorate; adorn; embellish; trim

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deface (antonym)

To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.

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Find another word for embellish. In this page you can discover 44 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for embellish, like: ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, dramatize, apparel, beautify, bedeck, blazon, brighten and color.