Definition of BEAUTIFY

Examples of beautify in a Sentence

Fresh flowers beautify every room.
beautified the roadside landscape by planting flowers

Recent Examples of beautify from the Web

Volunteers descended on a corner in Milwaukee's Lindsay Heights neighborhood Sunday to plant flowers, install floral boxes and beautify a garden in honor of Za'Layia Jenkins, one of last year's youngest victims of gun violence.

— ashley luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A Milwaukee girl died by gunfire. Now a garden grows in her name.", 2 July 2017
To look and feel your Oscar-worthy best and red-carpet ready, here are seven beautifying destinations that celebrities from Taylor Swift to Charlize Theron are all flocking to in Los Angeles this season.

— sunhee grinnell, Vanities, "Beauty Marathon: Los Angeles", 19 June 2017
They were meant to beautify the cities as part of the City Beautiful movement.

— randy dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, "Inside the hidden history of confederate memorials", 14 June 2017
Fresh mobs are a grassroots movement designed to beautify the Lorain Road corridor, keep the city looking its best and provide some fun for the volunteers.

— carol kovach, cleveland.com, "Lakewood Summer Solstice Celebration will welcome the season: A Place in the Sun", 13 June 2017
For example, 1 Hotel Central Park, which partnered with Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, invites guests to help beautify the city by watering trees, composting and pulling weeds.

— chicagotribune.com, "Save money on trips to Tahiti, South Africa and more", 13 June 2017
One set of baskets is growing nasturtiums, an edible plant that does double duty beautifying the space.

— roxie hammill, kansascity, "Options abound for gardening in a small space", 2 June 2017
Last year, wine sales brought in $1,000 to support the non-profit neighborhood association, which works to beautify the area and educate the community about life in the neighborhoods surrounding the square.

— ann norman, cleveland.com, "Stylee Wild to cap off Rock'in the Court June 10 with free concert on Medina's square", 2 June 2017
One resident of the neighborhood around Cowherd Middle School in Aurora is working to beautify the area, and has drawn middle school students into the effort.

— sarah freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, "Aurora student's mural design part of efforts to clean up neighborhood", 23 May 2017

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Origin and Etymology of beautify

Middle English bewtyfien, from beaute beauty + -fien -fy

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First Known Use: 15th century

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beautify Synonyms

Synonym Discussion of beautify

adorn, decorate, ornament, embellish, beautify, deck, garnish mean to enhance the appearance of something by adding something unessential. adorn implies an enhancing by something beautiful in itself. a diamond necklace adorned her neck decorate suggests relieving plainness or monotony by adding beauty of color or design. decorate a birthday cake ornament and embellish imply the adding of something extraneous, ornament stressing the heightening or setting off of the original a white house ornamented with green shutters, embellish often stressing the adding of superfluous or adventitious ornament. embellish a page with floral borders beautify adds to embellish a suggestion of counterbalancing plainness or ugliness. will beautify the grounds with flower beds deck implies the addition of something that contributes to gaiety, splendor, or showiness. a house all decked out for Christmas garnish suggests decorating with a small final touch and is used especially in referring to the serving of food. an entrée garnished with parsley