(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.
Prettify
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Occasionally, I'd spot another woman at a team training camp, and they were always – always – a glammed-up TV reporter, all prettified in high heels and heavy makeup, while all around them were slobby male newspaper reporters.
(2) Haigh explains that it was important to resist prettifying: “I don’t want to overcomplicate my films with beauty.
(3) I don’t think we ought to prettify the US-China relationship in its current state.
(4) It's a direct descendant of PUNKSNOTDEAD , a joyfully violent, neon-drenched primal scream made by a developer called mooosh in just 12 hours – except Kopas' "cutie aesthetic" reinterpretation – where you prettify the game's world by embracing people and kittens – acts as an interrogation of traditional testosterone-fueled death fantasies.
(5) I don’t want to prettify or romanticise the Calais “jungle”.
(6) The snow won’t simply prettify the landscape, it will also increase its value: skiers will pay hundreds of pounds for a six-day lift pass, while the wealthiest winter visitors will spend several thousands to stay for a week in the town’s more expensive hotels.
(7) And were they – preposterous thought – to be made into films, who would look after the rights, who would make sure the plots were not straightened, the characters prettified?
(8) There are materials such as carpet squares and windowpanes for prettifying the work.
(9) Osborne tried to prettify his bulletin of gloom as best he could but, in US parlance, he was putting lipstick on a pig.
(10) It is tough work for the multinational crew of 30 in this rough-and-ready little boat, prettified below deck with posters of orang-utans and sunflowers painted in the toilets.
(11) But it does no service to the memory of the victims to prettify the horrific reality.
(12) But in Labour’s internal struggles, “unity” and “democracy” are rhetorical motifs for prettifying a ruthless power play, like the chivalric colours worn by knights before they joust to the death.
(13) Mr Branson gets a prettified bank, which he can now rename Virgin.