Embellish
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.
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Embellish Quotations
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
Bob Woodward
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
Donna Rice
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
Donna Tartt
I just find things that work and embellish them.
Lindsey Buckingham
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham
I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion.
Gower Champion
Embellish Translations
embellish in Dutch is verfraaien, opwerken, flatteren
embellish in French is embellir
embellish in Italian is abbellire
embellish in Latin is decoro
embellish in Spanish is hermosear, embellecer
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