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Thesaurus: embellish

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.

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  1. 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.
  2. v. add details to
  3. v. be beautiful to look at
  4. v. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
  5. v. make more beautiful
  6. 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.
  7. To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; toadorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubsand flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style withmetaphors.
  8. v:100 v add details to v be beautiful to look at v make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. v make more beautiful