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- DictionaryEm·bel·lish/əmˈbeliSH/
verb
- 1. make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features: "blue silk embellished with golden embroidery"
Embellish definition: to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.. See examples of EMBELLISH used in a sentence.
to make something more beautiful or interesting by additions or details: Many early building entrances were richly embellished. If you embellish a story or statement, you add details that are not completely true in order to make it more interesting: He couldn’t resist embellishing his account of the African safari.
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.
1. to improve or beautify by adding detail or ornament; adorn. 2. to make (a story) more interesting by adding detail. 3. (Music, other) to provide (a melody, part, etc) with ornaments. See ornament 5. [C14: from Old French embelir, from bel beautiful, from Latin bellus] emˈbellisher n. emˈbellishment n.
2 days ago · If something is embellished with decorative features or patterns, it has those features or patterns on it and they make it look more attractive . The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue. [be VERB -ed + with] Ivy leaves embellish the front of the dresser. [VERB noun]
embellish something to make something more beautiful by adding decoration to it synonym decorate. The huge carved door was embellished with brass door knockers. embellished with gold lettering/golden embroidery/jewellery/precious metal/sweeping chintz curtains. Definitions on the go.
to make something more beautiful or interesting by adding something to it: He embellished the story with lots of dramatic detail. embellishment. noun [ C, U ] (Definition of embellish from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of embellish. in Chinese (Traditional) 裝飾，修飾, 給…錦上添花，渲染… See more.
