(v. t.) To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
(v. i.) To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) It could have gone into beautifying those parts of Stratford where people live.
(3) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(4) People lauded its quality of life; he moved factories to the city's edges and beautified the centre.
(5) While their husbands and boyfriends get on with their serious, ball-based business, the Wags are getting bouffed and beautified.
(6) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
(7) Changes like this usually happen through wars and natural disasters.” The academic and activist Iskra Geshoska is describing a project called Skopje 2014 , a comprehensive plan to “beautify” the city centre of Macedonia’s capital.
(8) And he has insisted the country physically clean itself up, choosing Gandhi’s birthday to launch the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, enjoining his countrymen to sweep, tidy and beautify parks, streets and public places.
(9) For him war became an everyday experience of such rigour that he had little time to theorise about it, much less beautify it.
(10) Shoalstone began life as a natural rock pool and, over the years, it's been blasted out, levelled, painted, added to and beautified, mostly by volunteers.
(11) He said such women had "abandoned their basic duties such as housekeeping, bringing up children ... and replaced this by beautifying themselves and wantonness".
(12) To borrow his description of Autolycus (in The Winter’s Tale ), our national playwright was a “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”, denounced in his own time as a plagiarist (“an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers”), a writer of genius keenly alert to an extraordinary mix of cadences, ideas and emotions.
(13) For some, the home has become this constantly made-over, beautified status symbol.
(14) The main activity at the jail is beautifying; sometimes it almost seems like the largest beauty parlour in Mexico.
(15) The dermatologist can better aid the patient with hair difficulties if he or she has an understanding of the formulation and effects of products designed to cleanse, beautify, and modify the hair.
Beauty
Definition:
(n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
(n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
(n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
(n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
(2) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(3) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(4) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(5) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(6) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(7) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(8) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(9) At the local beauty parlour run by Truvy (Dolly Parton), the two meet new employee Annelle (Daryl Hannah).
(10) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(11) A breathless Sturridge was still trying to digest his part in the game when he paid tribute to Hodgson, saying: “I’m grateful to the gaffer for allowing me to score and it’s a beautiful feeling to represent your country in the rivalry against another great country.
(12) On our approach march to K2 base camp, we crossed this wild, beautiful, lonesome and very powerful landscape.
(13) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(14) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
(15) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
(16) 7 MyVoucherCodes Works on: iPhone and Android Cost: Free The app from the website of the same name, MyVoucherCodes uses GPS to send you the best money-off deals for eating out, shopping, health and beauty, travel, entertainment etc, wherever you are.
(17) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(18) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(19) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
(20) Successful treatment can transform their lives: 'They are bright, healthy, beautiful children--a dream come true.