To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
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To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
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To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
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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…
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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…
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To heap up; to accumulate.
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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
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To speak or write with exaggeration.
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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…
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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
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To exaggerate; to overdo.
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To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.
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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…
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To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.
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To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
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The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seek…
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The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seek…
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Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
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A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
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To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
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To embroider.
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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.
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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…
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Bacon; the flesh of swine.
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A footpath; a road.
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