Spangle: alternatives and connections

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

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An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

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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 disgorge filth, as a hawk.

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A glimpse, glance, or gleam.

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To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening…

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To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.

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

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To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

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An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and…

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.