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Embroider

To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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Adorn 76% connected

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Amplify 76% connected

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beautify 76% connected

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Decorate 76% connected

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Embellish 76% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exaggerate 76% connected

To heap up; to accumulate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hyperbolize 76% connected

To speak or write with exaggeration.

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Magnify 76% connected

To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ornament 76% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Overdraw 76% connected

To exaggerate; to overdo.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Overstate 76% connected

To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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Manner of action 3

Fagot 76% connected

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a f…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Glorify 76% connected

To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Purl 76% connected

To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

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Derivationally related 2

Aggrandizement 74% connected

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seek…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Aggrandizement 74% connected

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seek…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 2

Sew 72% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stitch 72% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

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Synonym 6

Aggrandize 92% connected

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Broider 92% connected

To embroider.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dramatize 92% connected

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Embellish 92% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lard 92% connected

Bacon; the flesh of swine.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pad 92% connected

A footpath; a road.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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