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embellish (verb):
1 : to make beautiful with ornamentation
2 : to heighten the attractiveness of by adding decorative or fanciful details
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Like its synonyms adorn, ornament, and garnish, embellish means to make something beautiful by the addition of a decorative or fanciful feature. Traditionally, the word is used specifically to stress the addition of superfluous or adventitious ornament, as in “The printer embellished the page with a floral border.” Embellish differs from its synonyms, however, in that it is sometimes used in a euphemistic way to refer to the inclusion of details that are not necessarily true to make a story sound more appealing. The word derives via Middle English from the Anglo-French verb embelir, from en- and bel (“beautiful”).
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