| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To decorate, adorn, garnish, ornament or embroider.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To spangle or tinsel. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To prettify or beautify. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To renovate or refurbish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To enhance, improve or ameliorate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb embellish.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (embellish) | 1. Be beautiful to look at.[Wordnet]. 2. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..[Wordnet]. 3. Make more beautiful.[Wordnet]. 4. Add details to.[Wordnet]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: embellishing, embellished, embellishes, embellisher, embellishers, embellishingly and embellishedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EMBELLISHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EMBELLISHING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Adorning; decorating; adding grace, ornament or elegance to a person or thing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of embellish. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
