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embellish 音标拼音: [ɪmb'ɛlɪʃ] vt. 修饰,装饰,润色 修饰,装饰,润色 embellish v 1: add details to [ synonym: { embroider}, { pad}, { lard}, { embellish}, { aggrandize}, { aggrandise}, { blow up}, { dramatize}, { dramatise}] 2: be beautiful to look at; " Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [ synonym: { deck}, { adorn}, { decorate}, { grace}, { embellish}, { beautify}] 3: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; " Decorate the room for the party"; " beautify yourself for the special day" [ synonym: { decorate}, { adorn}, { grace}, { ornament}, { embellish}, { beautify}] 4: make more beautiful [ synonym: { fancify}, { beautify}, { embellish}, { prettify}] [ ant: { uglify}] Embellish \ Em* bel" lish\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Embellished}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Embellishing}.] [ OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- ( L. in) bel, beau, beautiful. See { Beauty}.] 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. Syn: To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See { Adorn}. [ 1913 Webster] 103 Moby Thesaurus words for " embellish": adorn, apparel, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, caparison, color, convolute, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, emblazon, embroider, enhance, enrich, evolve, exaggerate, falsify, festoon, fig out, finish, fix up, flourish, fudge, furbish, furbish up, garble, garnish, gild, gild the lily, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, improve, involve, load with ornament, magnify, mask, mature, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overlay, overload, overpaint, overstate, pad, paint, perfect, pervert, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, slant, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, strain, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash
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