beautify (verb)

  • 1beautify — ► VERB (beautifies, beautified) ▪ make beautiful. DERIVATIVES beautification noun …

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  • 2beautify — verb efforts to beautify the town center Syn: adorn, embellish, enhance, decorate, ornament, garnish, gild, smarten up, prettify, enrich, glamorize, spruce up, spiff up, deck (out), trick out, grace; informal do up Ant …

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  • 3beautify — verb ( fied; fying) Date: 1526 transitive verb to make beautiful or add beauty to ; embellish intransitive verb to grow beautiful Synonyms: see adorn • beautification noun • beautifier …

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  • 4beautify — verb /ˈbju.tə.faɪ/ To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of. Syn: adorn, decorate, ornament, prettify See Also: beautification, beautifier, beautifiable …

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  • 5beautify — verb (beautifies, beautifying, beautified) make beautiful. Derivatives beautification noun beautifier noun …

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  • 6beautify — verb (T) to make someone or something beautiful …

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  • 7beautify — [c]/ˈbjutəfaɪ / (say byoohtuhfuy) verb (beautified, beautifying) –verb (t) 1. to decorate, adorn or make more beautiful: a plan to beautify the city. –verb (i) 2. Obsolete to become beautiful. {beauty + fy} –beautification /bjutəfəˈkeɪʃən/ (say …

  • 8beautify — [[t]bju͟ːtɪfaɪ[/t]] beautifies, beautifying, beautified VERB If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful. [FORMAL] [V n] Claire worked to beautify the garden. Syn: smarten …

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  • 9beautify — UK [ˈbjuːtɪˌfaɪ] / US [ˈbjutɪˌfaɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms beautify : present tense I/you/we/they beautify he/she/it beautifies present participle beautifying past tense beautified past participle beautified to make something look more… …

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  • 10beautify — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make beautiful] Syn. adorn, embellish, enhance, ornament; see decorate . 2. [To improve the grounds] Syn. landscape, plant, garden; see improve 1 . See Synonym Study at decorate . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. dress up …

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