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embellishing

/em-bel-ish/US // ɛmˈbɛl ɪʃ //UK // (ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ) //

点缀,润饰,润色,点缀的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
    • : to enhance with fictitious additions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake beautiful; decorate
Forms: embellished, embellishes

Examples

  • Day of the Dead parades follow a cross-cultural flow, embellishing Halloween stylizations of the dancing skeleton.

  • Without the choreographed truth-embellishing dance found in his published work, the truth emerges.

  • Anderson Cooper recently dedicated a long CNN segment to debunking allegations that Dayem was embellishing his reports.

  • “He was embellishing,” Mani said, during an interview last week.

  • A shared tendency with his subjects toward embellishing things.

  • Castalia lacked the Ancram gift of embellishing disadvantageous circumstances.

  • I have two reasons for embellishing this little volume with your distinguished and honored name.

  • His favorite occupation consisted in embellishing his rhetoric with all the proprieties of gesticulation and utterance.

  • The gay bonnets and brilliant dresses threw a varied and picturesque beauty over the scene, softening and embellishing it.

  • Enamoured with the peace and rest that brooded over the place, he went on year by year enlarging and embellishing it.