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单词 embroider
释义 embroider
 —embroiderer,  n.  
 /em broy"deuhr/,  v.t.  
  1. to decorate with ornamental needlework.
  2. to produce or form in needlework.
  3. to adorn or embellish rhetorically, esp. with ornate language or fictitious details: He embroidered the account of the shipwreck to hold his listeners' interest.
  v.i.  
  4. to do embroidery.
  5. to add embellishments; exaggerate (often fol. by on or upon).
 [1350-1400; EM-1 + BROIDER; r. ME embroderen, freq. of embroden < MF embro(u)der, equiv. to em- EM-1 + OF brosder, deriv. of brosd < Gmc (see BRAD)]
 Syn. 3. elaborate, exaggerate, color, fancify.
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