Crossword-Solution: EMBELLISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Embellish | v. t. | 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 narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. |
We have 61 clues for the answer “EMBELLISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| emblaze | 1 answer |
| Add frills to | 1 answer |
| Improve a story by adding colourful false details | 3 answers |
| Make more Attractive | 6 answers |
| dight | 6 answers |
| colourise | 7 answers |
| add value to | 8 answers |
| Emboss | 10 answers |
| MAKE conspicuous | 10 answers |
| Bedizen | 13 answers |
| Bejewel | 16 answers |
| APPLY LACE | 16 answers |
| smarten | 16 answers |
| make sleek | 17 answers |
| MAKE mountain out of molehill | 18 answers |
| Bedeck | 22 answers |
| Prettify | 26 answers |
| Embroider | 26 answers |
| Gild | 30 answers |
| Dress ( up ) | 32 answers |
| glamorize | 34 answers |
| Overplay | 34 answers |
| Blazon | 35 answers |
| misstate | 36 answers |
| Enhance | 37 answers |
| Pad | 44 answers |
| make glossy | 45 answers |
| Enrich | 45 answers |
| Spruce (up) | 46 answers |
| Adorn | 46 answers |
| freshen up | 46 answers |
| Edify | 46 answers |
| Doll up | 47 answers |
| Magnify | 49 answers |
| DECK ___ | 50 answers |
| set off | 51 answers |
| Spruce | 51 answers |
| transfigure | 53 answers |
| Fudge | 53 answers |
| Promote | 54 answers |
| Glamorise | 55 answers |
| Decorate | 55 answers |
| Beautify | 56 answers |
| ENCOURAGE sale of | 58 answers |
| flatter | 60 answers |
| Dignify | 60 answers |
| Freshen | 60 answers |
| Refresh | 62 answers |
| Update | 62 answers |
| Garnish | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
IOTOEMN
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with EMBELLISH (5)
See Adore, Ornate.] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
Beautifying.] [Beauty + Ïfy.] To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
France will perceive too late, after he has disappeared, the loss she has sustained when this Prince, Grand Seigneur, has ceased to embellish by his presence her race-courses and "first nights." A reputation like his cannot be improvised in a moment, and he has no pupils.
All comprehension is creation; the woman I love is somewhat of my handiwork; and the great lover, like the great painter, is he that can so embellish his subject as to make her more than human, whilst yet by a cunning art he has so based his apotheosis on the nature of the case that the woman can go on being a true woman, and give her character free play, and show littleness, or cherish spite, or be greedy of common pleasures, and he continue to worship without a thought of incongruity.
People are afraid to put down what is common on paper, they seek to embellish their narratives, as they think, by philosophic speculations and reflections; they are anxious to shine, and people who are anxious to shine can never tell a plain story.
Quotes with EMBELLISH (3)
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.
There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2018).