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Word Meanings - EMBELLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.

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  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • DECORATE
    To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
  • GLOSSA
    The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
  • GLOSSIST
    A writer of comments. Milton.
  • GARNISHMENT
    1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
  • ADORNINGLY
    By adorning; decoratively.
  • GLOSSOLOGY
    1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
  • GLOSSARIAL
    Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
  • GARNISHEE
    One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
  • ADORNATION
    Adornment.
  • GLOSSOLOGICAL
    Of or pertaining to glossology.
  • GARNISHER
    One who, or that which, garnishes.
  • ADJUSTIVE
    Tending to adjust.
  • EMBOSS
    1. To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. Then
  • GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to glossography.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
  • GLOSSANTHRAX
    A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • EMBROIDER
    To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.
  • 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. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • DEGARNISHMENT
    The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • MISADJUSTMENT
    Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

 

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