(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.
Retouch
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
(v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
(n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(2) Clarke recently launched his Fix Your Pix service aimed at homeowners marketing their homes through online estate agents, who can email him their photographs to be professionally retouched for £10 per shot plus VAT, far cheaper than organising your own shoot.
(3) These drawbacks might be avoided by using transrectal extraperitoneal extemporaneously matured colostomy that simplifies the surgical technique and prevents both precocious complications (peritonitis, occlusions, parietal abscess, necessity of a second "retouch" surgery) and also tardy complications (stomal prolapse, parastomal eventration).
(4) Although many surgeons still perform the definitive terminal colostomy using the initial technique--pararectal incision, transperitoneal tract, secondarily retouched excess--this procedure complicates uselessly the surgical technique leading frequently to complications.
(5) Even more breathtaking was Hidalgo's official campaign poster released last week, showing a heavily retouched (Hidalgo's team denied this) portrait described by French PR veteran Jacques Séguéla as like "a L'Oréal advert for anti-wrinkle cream".
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(7) The second was of the same girl, but it had been retouched to eliminate the disfigurement.
(8) When we start working on the painting’s restoration, the priority is to strengthen its structure, not retouching the paint on the damaged area,” he said.
(9) In 2010 the family firm launched Traffic Paymaster – software that inflates a website's advertising revenue by copying and retouching other people's content, which Labour has called on police to investigate for possible fraud and copyright violations.
(10) As it was "members' varnishing day", when works can by tradition be varnished or retouched if necessary, Brill was in the gallery with two tins of black paint.
(11) Basic retouching is fine, misrepresentation isn't."
(12) A life lived via social media is a highly edited one: look at me, cropped, retouched, looking better than ever!
(13) They also paid Saatchi £5,287.50 a week to have a retoucher on call for two weeks running.
(14) It also examines his working process, via the inclusion of initial plaster models, and his attention to how his art circulated: Rodin commissioned photographers and retouchers to shoot his sculptures in just the right light.
(15) The results are discussed in terms of the visual masking theories and the hypothetical perceptual retouch mechanism.
(16) I don't crop them, I don't retouch, and the shots are never staged.
(17) Thereafter, many operations can be performed on the colposcopic images: reductions, enlargements, retouches, record, recall, analysis, etc.
(18) When you bid for a franchise you’re looking forward to think what are customers going to need, but this fund gives a way to do different things that we haven’t thought of that customers may suggest.” The remaining train exteriors will be retouched by August; addressing the ageing interiors will take longer, with refurbishment starting over two years from August.
(19) "I don't have any qualms about retouching photos to make them look more attractive, but I wouldn't use technology to reshape a room or hide cracks in the walls.
(20) The party also formed policy calling for cigarette-style health warnings by advertisers for the adult market which "tell the truth" about the use of digital retouching technology.