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beautify
to make or become beautiful: They beautify themselves for the ball.
Not to be confused with:
beatify – to make blessedly happy; to exalt above all others: They beatify their saints.
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beau·ti·fy
(byo͞o′tə-fī′)tr. & intr.v. beau·ti·fied, beau·ti·fy·ing, beau·ti·fies
To make or become beautiful.
beau′ti·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.
beau′ti·fi′er n.
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beautify
(ˈbjuːtɪˌfaɪ)vb, -fies, -fying or -fied
to make or become beautiful
beautification n
ˈbeautiˌfier n
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beau•ti•fy
(ˈbyu təˌfaɪ)v.t., v.i. -fied, -fy•ing.
to make or become beautiful.
[1520–30]
beau`ti•fi•ca′tion, n.
beau′ti•fi`er, n.
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beautify
Past participle: beautified
Gerund: beautifying
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Verb | 1. | beautify - make more beautiful ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better - to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" window-dress, dress up - make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth" slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivate - make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" polish, smooth, smoothen, shine - make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" become, suit - enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" uglify - make ugly |
2. | beautify - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" ornament - be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" | |
3. | beautify - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" wreathe - decorate or deck with wreaths; "wreathe the grave site" braid - decorate with braids or ribbons; "braid a collar" stick - cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface; "stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it" illustrate - supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings" garland - adorn with bands of flowers or leaves; "They garlanded the statue" foliate - decorate with leaves flag - decorate with flags; "the building was flagged for the holiday" bard, barde, caparison, dress up - put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" bead - decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown" pipe - trim with piping; "pipe the skirt" applique - sew on as a decoration gild the lily, paint the lily - adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful) vermiculate - decorate with wavy or winding lines smock - embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts" hang - decorate or furnish with something suspended; "Hang wallpaper" prank - dress or decorate showily or gaudily; "Roses were pranking the lawn" tinsel - adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees" tart up - decorate in a cheap and flashy way; "the small-town bar was all tarted up" stucco - decorate with stucco work; "stuccoed ceilings" redecorate - redo the decoration of an apartment or house panel - decorate with panels; "panel the walls with wood" scallop - decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt" bedizen - decorate tastelessly dress ship - decorate a ship with flags trim - decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window" festoon - decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday" enamel - coat, inlay, or surface with enamel inlay - decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal lacquer - coat with lacquer; "A lacquered box from China" illuminate - add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) fringe - adorn with a fringe; "The weaver fringed the scarf" fret - decorate with an interlaced design landscape - embellish with plants; "Let's landscape the yard" ornament - be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" |
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beautify
verb make beautiful, enhance, decorate, enrich, adorn, garnish, ornament, gild, embellish, grace, festoon, bedeck, glamorize Claire worked to beautify the garden.
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beautify
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Translations
يُجمِّـل
krášlit
forskønne
kaunistaa
szépít
fegra
güzelleştirmek
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beautify
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beauty
(ˈbjuːti) – plural ˈbeauties – noun1. a quality very pleasing to the eye, ear etc. Her beauty is undeniable.
2. a woman or girl having such a quality. She was a great beauty in her youth.
3. something or someone remarkable. His new car is a beauty!
ˈbeautiful adjectivea beautiful woman; Those roses are beautiful.
ˈbeautifully adverbˈbeautify (-fai) verb
to make beautiful. She beautified the room with flowers.
beauty queen a girl or woman who is voted the most beautiful in a contest.
ˈbeauty salon noun (also American beauty parlor, ~beauty shop) a place where customers have cosmetic treatment.
beauty spot1. a place of great natural beauty. a famous beauty spot.
2. a mark (often artificial) on the face, intended to emphasize beauty.
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