What's the difference between embellish and emblazon?

Embellish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
  • (2) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
  • (3) Hunt embellished it with a sad little joke about his repeated failure to interest James in his own pet projects: superfast broadband and local TV.
  • (4) There were occasional literal and verbal paraphasic errors, but no completion phenomenon, embellishment or significant echolalia.
  • (5) But the main focus will be attempts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks along the lines of the 2002 Saudi initiative, as developed recently by King Abdullah of Jordan and embellished by Obama.
  • (6) By now, Galeano had an established voice as a writer, and he soon settled down to write a series of books that embellished the formula that had proved so successful with Open Veins, combining contemporary observations with historical anecdote.
  • (7) So if he embellished this, how can you believe the rest?
  • (8) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
  • (9) Thus both the selective loss of entire branches and the selective embellishment of others occur during the development of these somatosensory cortical structures.
  • (10) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
  • (11) He embellished the party line with his own metaphors and rhetorical swirls.
  • (12) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
  • (13) Survival and event-free rates in long-term follow-up period were markedly embellished by the types of prosthesis.
  • (14) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
  • (15) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
  • (16) The club denied it and a Ukip spokesman said he had played for the Tranmere schoolboy and youth teams, adding that the embellishment was an “innocent mistake” by a press officer.
  • (17) Third, the argument is embellished with emotive claims about how this ruling will fragment, chill, choke, censor, or somehow damage the internet.
  • (18) The embellishment comes from telling it over and over again, letting your brain seek out the funny.
  • (19) West Ham came close to embellishing their lead on the half-hour when Vaz Tê skittered down the right and cut the ball back to O'Neil, whose curling shot from the edge of the area forced a fine save from Marshall.
  • (20) He appears to be intolerant of workers who choose to embellish their bodies with works of art, however small or innocuous.

Emblazon


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
  • (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (4) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
  • (5) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
  • (6) A month or so ago a whispering campaign, which at one point appeared to emanate from senior figures in Downing Street, suggested that Crosby had placed the usually sunny David Cameron into a straitjacket emblazoned with the words “long-term economic plan”, which he found frustrating.
  • (7) Officers were in low numbers and principally dressed in bright blue polo shirts emblazoned with “NYPD Community Affairs”.
  • (8) Once you’ve picked this out of thin air, you notice the large “River Island” emblazoned across the side.
  • (9) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
  • (10) They are filing towards the tree-lined square of Ulysses Place, where a red concrete wall waits to greet them, emblazoned with big bronze letters.
  • (11) The statement said a search of one gang member’s house unearthed a red duffel bag with an Italian flag that contained Regeni’s student cards, credit cards, mobile phones and a brown wallet with his passport in, as well as a second wallet emblazoned with the word “love” and other personal effects such as sunglasses.
  • (12) Ronald Koeman likely to dash Everton’s hopes by staying at Southampton Read more ¢ “Leading Saints into a new era,” read the headline on the cover of the Southampton matchday programme, emblazoned across the image of Virgil van Dijk.
  • (13) He wrote: “Emblazoned on the battlebus, both Leave and Remain wrapped themselves in the mantle of a strong and better funded health service.
  • (14) The group imposed a reign of terror, dressing up its violence with cult-like rituals: new members were initiated wearing faux medieval costumes, including plastic helmets and tunics emblazoned with red crusader crosses.
  • (15) And from the smart-looking website and book bags emblazoned with the academy's slogan, "Unlocking potential", it certainly seems like a slick operation.
  • (16) This is a huge general ‘Fuck off’.” On the hard right, Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-migrant Lega Nord, is also surfing the wave, describing Trump’s triumph as a strike against globalisation: “It’s the revenge of the people, of courage, of pride, of the desire for work and security; and it’s one in the eye for the bankers, the speculators and the journalists.” Salvini’s No referendum rallies have been “Trumpified”, accompanied now by supporters waving blue placards , emblazoned “Salvini Premier”, designed to imitate those familiar from American town hall meetings.
  • (17) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
  • (18) A few wore union flag T-shirts emblazoned with the motto: "Extradite me, I'm British".
  • (19) It was emblazoned with a photograph of Bernie Sanders.
  • (20) Life is indeed a learning experience, but the general appeared not to be reading the central message emblazoned in flashing neon lights ever since the first foreign troops arrived in southern Afghanistan.