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present participle of array
Synonyms & Antonyms of arraying
1
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
- a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath
Synonyms for arraying
- adorning,
- beautifying,
- bedecking,
- bedizening,
- blazoning,
- caparisoning,
- decking,
- decorating,
- doing,
- doing up,
- dolling up,
- draping,
- dressing,
- embellishing,
- emblazing,
- embossing,
- enriching,
- fancifying,
- fancying up,
- festooning,
- garnishing,
- glitzing (up),
- gracing,
- gussying up,
- ornamenting,
- prettying (up),
- trimming
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2
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
- arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations
Synonyms for arraying
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- accoutring
- (or accoutering),
- bedighting
- [archaic],
- equipping,
- furnishing,
- habilitating,
- outfitting,
- tailoring,
- uniforming
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- disarraying,
- disrobing,
- stripping,
- unclothing,
- undressing,
- untrussing
- [archaic]
3
to put into a particular arrangement
- arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value
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