(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.
Garnish
Definition:
(v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
(v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
(v. t.) To fit with fetters.
(v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
(n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
(n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
(v. t.) Fetters.
(v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Up to 80% of inmates’ earnings, however, can be garnished to go toward room and board, victim restitution, child support and mandatory savings.
(2) Even where meat or fish appears it is not as the star of the show but, in a neat reversal, more as a garnish.
(3) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
(4) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(5) In January, the WA corrective services minister, Joe Francis, described serving jail time to pay down fines as the “soft option” and announced “tougher” penalties, including the option of garnishing welfare payments to pay off unpaid fines.
(6) The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices.
(7) Looking at it, there was nothing special about this one – a plain roll in a plastic package, no salad or garnish, a little too much mayo.
(8) Sprinkle on top of your curry as garnish and serve with rice.
(9) Divide between plates and garnish with a little lick of extra virgin olive oil, if you like.
(10) He said the state government was also in talks with the federal government about “having the authority to garnish wages from welfare”, saying “that may be one way of trying to get money off people”.
(11) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
(12) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
(13) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
(14) 8 To serve, flood four plates with the sauce; put two red mullet fillets on each plate, skin-side uppermost, and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.
(15) Here are a few ideas to get you started sautéed courgette flowers chorizo with potatoes shredded chilli-smoked chicken slow-cooked pork confit of pork poached and shredded chicken, cooked in mouthwatering moles stuffed chillies beans gently cooked with spices and aromatics grilled fish Arrange the table with taco fillings, salsas and garnishes of your choice.
(16) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
(17) Top with the broad beans and garnish with the remaining chopped mint.
(18) Dishes are delicately garnished with flavour-packed herb snippets and bright pink or purple edible flowers.
(19) Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.
(20) There is a batter base, an obligatory cabbage filling and quite strict garnishes – but otherwise, the rest of the ingredients come down to what's at hand.