(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.
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.