embellish.
To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
Meaning & usage
To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.
to embellish a story, the truth
Where this word comes from
From Middle English embelishen, from Old French embellir, from em- + bel.
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