Embellish

Verb

 * 1) To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
 * The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
 * 1) To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
 * to embellish a story, the truth

Synonyms

 * adorn
 * beautify
 * decorate
 * deck
 * grace
 * ornament
 * prettify

Adverbs for Embellish
peculiarly; handsomely; profusely; tastefully; poetically; artistically; architecturally; rhetorically; flamboyantly; gaudily; beautifully; lavishly.

Thesaurus
adorn, apparel, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, caparison, color, convolute, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, emblazon, embroider, enhance, enrich, evolve, exaggerate, falsify, festoon, fig out, finish, fix up, flourish, fudge, furbish, furbish up, garble, garnish, gild, gild the lily, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, improve, involve, load with ornament, magnify, mask, mature, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overlay, overload, overpaint, overstate, pad, paint, perfect, pervert, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, slant, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, strain, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash

Etymology
From embellir.

Translations

 * Arabic:, زخرف
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 美化, 修飾,  修饰
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: (to make more beautiful and attractive) somistaa, kaunistaa, (to decorate) koristella
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 飾る
 * Portuguese: embelezar
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgeadaich
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: försköna, förfina


 * Arabic:, زخرف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  修飾,  修饰
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 尾鰭を付ける
 * Portuguese: embelezar
 * Russian: приукрашивать
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgeadaich
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: försköna