| 单词 | embellish |
| 释义 | embellish (once / 1259 pages) v The word "bell" shows up in the middle of embellish, and bells are something that decorate, or embellish something, making it more attractive. If you embellish speech, though, it can get ugly if you add a lot of details that aren't true. Embellish often has the positive meaning of adding something to make it more handsome or beautifully decorated. But, while adding bells to something looks great at first, after a couple of hours of bells ringing in the ears, what was meant to embellish and beautify can get annoying. That's what can happen when you embellish by adding too many false or exaggerated details to a story. Embellishing with true, colorful details and vivid descriptions is what can really enhance the beauty of a story. WORD FAMILYembellish: embellished, embellishes, embellishing, embellishment+/embellished: unembellished/embellishment: embellishments USAGE EXAMPLESIn the process, we unknowingly embellish reality and create fictions. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) In the historically accurate version Dava Sobel tells in her careful and detailed style, the past is neither sanitized nor embellished. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Yet among the strongest entries are Judith Coady's abstract monotypes, whose vertical oil-pigment stripes are embellished with pencil and silver leaf. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1v make more attractive by adding ornament, color, etc. Syn|Hypo|Hyper adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament ornament be an ornament to wreathe decorate or deck with wreaths beset, encrust, incrustdecorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) braiddecorate with braids or ribbons broider, embroiderdecorate with needlework stickcover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface illustratesupply with illustrations garlandadorn with bands of flowers or leaves fledge, flightdecorate with feathers bespangle, spangledecorate with spangles foliatedecorate with leaves flagdecorate with flags bard, barde, caparison, dress upput a caparison on beaddecorate by sewing beads onto pipetrim with piping appliquesew on as a decoration gild the lily, paint the lilyadorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful) vermiculatedecorate with wavy or winding lines smockembellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally hangdecorate or furnish with something suspended prankdress or decorate showily or gaudily tinseladorn with tinsel tart updecorate in a cheap and flashy way stuccodecorate with stucco work redecorateredo the decoration of an apartment or house paneldecorate with panels bejewel, jeweladorn or decorate with precious stones filet, filletdecorate with a lace of geometric designs scallopdecorate an edge with scallops bedizendecorate tastelessly dress shipdecorate a ship with flags dress, garnish, trimdecorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods trimdecorate, as with ornaments bedeck, bedight, deckdecorate festoondecorate with strings of flowers enamelcoat, inlay, or surface with enamel inlaydecorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal lacquercoat with lacquer begild, engild, gilddecorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold illuminateadd embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) blazon, emblazondecorate with heraldic arms color, colour, emblazondecorate with colors fringeadorn with a fringe fretdecorate with an interlaced design landscapeembellish with plants faggot, fagotornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch purlembroider with gold or silver thread purledge or border with gold or silver embroidery plumedeck with a plume hatchinlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating damasceneinlay metal with gold and silver japancoat with a lacquer, as done in Japan miniate, rubricatedecorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red miniatepaint with red lead or vermilion alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v make more beautiful Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper beautify, fancify, prettify uglify make ugly groom, neaten care for one's external appearance curry, dress, groomgive a neat appearance to dress up, window-dressmake something appear superficially attractive slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivatemake neat, smart, or trim polish, shine, smooth, smoothenmake (a surface) shine become, suitenhance the appearance of clean, cleanseclean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing shaveremove body hair with a razor comb, comb out, disentanglesmoothen and neaten with or as with a comb arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, setarrange attractively gel, mousseapply a styling gel to pomadeapply pomade to (hair) clean upmake oneself clean, presentable or neat make upapply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier manicurecare for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. barberperform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of pedicurecare for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. do up, doll up, glam up, pretty upuse special care in dressing, making-up, etc. slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce updress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion perfume, scentapply perfume to Simonise, Simonizepolish with wax sleek, slickmake slick or smooth buff, burnish, furbishpolish and make shiny glossgive a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 3v add details to Syn|Hypo|Hyper aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad glorify cause to seem more splendid amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth 4v be beautiful to look at Syn|Hypo|Hyper adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace ornament be an ornament to be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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