Garnish

Verb

 * 1) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished.
 * 2)  To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
 * 3) To furnish; to supply.
 * By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
 * 1) To fit with fetters.
 * 2)  To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

Derived terms

 * garnishee
 * garnishment
 * garnishor

Related terms

 * garrison
 * garment

Noun

 * 1) a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
 * 2) pewter vessels in general.
 * 3) * 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478:
 * The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.

Synonyms for Garnish
adorn, embellish, decorate, deck, beautify, enhance, furnish, ornament, bedeck, array, strew, grace, trim.

Antonyms for Garnish
deface, spoil, disfigure, mar, impair, injure, strip, dismantle, destroy, faze, obliterate, erase, deteriorate, harm, damage, hurt.

Thesaurus
adjunct, adorn, adornment, annex, arrangement, array, attach, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, collectivize, color, color patterns, commandeer, communalize, communize, confiscate, dandify, deck, deck out, decor, decorate, decoration, distrain, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaboration, embellish, embellishment, emblazon, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroider, embroidery, enrich, expropriate, fig out, fix up, flourish, flower arrangement, furbish, furniture arrangement, garnishment, garniture, grace, gussy up, illumination, impound, impress, levy, nationalize, ornament, ornamentation, paint, prank, prank up, preen, press, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refurbish, replevin, replevy, sequester, sequestrate, set off, set out, smarten, smarten up, socialize, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, trimming, window dressing

Etymology
From garnischen: <  undefined:, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir: (variants guarnir: and warnir:) <. Ultimately cognate via Germanic with warn:.

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Irish:
 * Italian: guarnire, decorare, adornare
 * Spanish: guarnecer


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian: ornare, abbellire
 * Spanish: guarnecer


 * Italian: fornire


 * Spanish: guarnecer

Noun

 * Icelandic: skreyting

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