Definition of beautify
: to grow beautiful
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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
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Hilborn's vision to help beautify Elmwood became reality thanks to the generosity of several local businesses.
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The short-term goal: to beautify this shabby stretch.
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Selected artists will join David Garibaldi, Raphael Delgado and Maren Conrad in beautifying the fence scrim around Papa Murphy's Park at Cal Expo.
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Military leaders saw the massive house clearings as crucial for beautifying the city for foreign visitors.
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All these beautifying benefits are the reason why celebrities, models, and the jet set crowd are seeking out 24-karat facials before big events.
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Operation Downtown Planters found volunteers to buy and plant arrangements like this one to beautify the downtown the last two years and is seeking a few more people or groups to provide plants and labor again this spring.
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Work designed by students for hotel damaged by hurricane are being returned to college Art students at Lone Star College University Park are helping to beautify and unite Houston.
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But in Japan in 1902, Fairchild fell in love with the blossoms for their appearance and for their potential to help beautify Washington, D.C.
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Origin and Etymology of beautify
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First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
See Words from the same yearbeautify Synonyms
Synonyms
adorn, array, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, caparison, deck, decorate, do, do up, doll up, drape, dress, embellish, emblaze, emboss, enrich, fancify, fancy up, festoon, garnish, glitz (up), grace, gussy up, ornament, pretty (up), trim;
Related Words
accessorize, dress up, trap, trick (out);
brighten, freshen, smarten, spruce (up);
braid, embroider, feather, figure, filigree, fillet, flounce, frill, fringe, furbelow, garland, hang, lace, ribbon, swag, wreathe;
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.
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- a diamond necklace adorned her neck
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- decorate a birthday cake
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- a white house ornamented with green shutters
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- embellish a page with floral borders
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- will beautify the grounds with flower beds
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- a house all decked out for Christmas
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- an entrée garnished with parsley
BEAUTIFY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of beautify for English Language Learners
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: to make (something) beautiful or more beautiful
BEAUTIFY Defined for Kids
Definition of beautify for Students
beautified;
beautifying
: to make beautiful
- We beautified the room with flowers.
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