beautify
Verb
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subtypes:
- groom, neaten - care for one's external appearance
- curry, dress, groom - give a neat appearance to
- dress up, window-dress - make something appear superficially attractive
- slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivate - make neat, smart, or trim
- polish, shine, smooth, smoothen - make (a surface) shine
- become, suit - enhance the appearance of
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)subtypes: ornament - be an ornament to
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subtypes:
- wreathe - decorate or deck with wreaths
- beset, encrust, incrust - decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
- braid - decorate with braids or ribbons
- broider, embroider - decorate with needlework
- stick - cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- illustrate - supply with illustrations
- garland - adorn with bands of flowers or leaves
- fledge, flight - decorate with feathers
- bespangle, spangle - decorate with spangles
- foliate - decorate with leaves
- flag - decorate with flags
- bard, barde, caparison, dress up - put a caparison on
- bead - decorate by sewing beads onto
- pipe - trim with piping
- applique - sew on as a decoration
- gild the lily, paint the lily - adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
- vermiculate - decorate with wavy or winding lines
- smock - embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally
- hang - decorate or furnish with something suspended
- prank - dress or decorate showily or gaudily
- tinsel - adorn with tinsel
- tart up - decorate in a cheap and flashy way
- stucco - decorate with stucco work
- redecorate - redo the decoration of an apartment or house
- panel - decorate with panels
- bejewel, jewel - adorn or decorate with precious stones
- filet, fillet - decorate with a lace of geometric designs
- scallop - decorate an edge with scallops
- bedizen - decorate tastelessly
- dress ship - decorate a ship with flags
- dress, garnish, trim - decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- trim - decorate, as with ornaments
- bedeck, bedight, deck - decorate
- festoon - decorate with strings of flowers
- enamel - coat, inlay, or surface with enamel
- inlay - decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal
- lacquer - coat with lacquer
- begild, engild, gild - decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
- illuminate - add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
- blazon, emblazon - decorate with heraldic arms
- color, colour, emblazon - decorate with colors
- fringe - adorn with a fringe
- fret - decorate with an interlaced design
- landscape - embellish with plants
verb group: ornament - be an ornament to
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