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  • 21decorate — [16] Decorate comes from Latin decorātus, the past participle of decorāre ‘make beautiful’, a verb derived from decus ‘ornament’. Its root, decor , also produced the adjective decorus ‘beautiful, seemly’, from which English gets decorous [17] and …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 22decorate — verb 1) the door was decorated with a wreath Syn: ornament, adorn, trim, embellish, garnish, furnish, enhance, grace, prettify; festoon, garland, bedeck 2) he started to decorate his home Syn …

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  • 23decorate — verb 1) the door was decorated with a wreath Syn: ornament, adorn, trim, embellish, garnish, furnish, enhance 2) he started to decorate his home Syn: paint, wallpaper, paper …

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  • 24decorate — [16] Decorate comes from Latin decorātus, the past participle of decorāre ‘make beautiful’, a verb derived from decus ‘ornament’. Its root, decor , also produced the adjective decorus ‘beautiful, seemly’, from which English gets decorous [17] and …

    Word origins

  • 25decorate — verb a) To furnish with decorations. It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute. b) To improve the… …

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  • 26Decorate — Украшать, декорировать; отделывать …

    Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • 27decorate — Synonyms and related words: accouter, add, adjoin, adorn, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appoint, array, attach, beautify, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, burden, caparison, cite, color, complicate, conjoin, convolute, crown, crown with… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28decorate — dec·o·rate || dekÉ™reɪt v. ornament; adorn; make beautiful; bestow a medal or honor on someone (e.g. in the armed forces) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 29decorate — verb 1》 add ornament to.     ↘chiefly Brit. apply paint or wallpaper to. 2》 confer an award or medal on. Origin C16: from L. decoratus embellished , from decus, decor honour or embellishment …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 30decorate — v. a. Adorn, deck, ornament, embellish, beautify, enrich, garnish …

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