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What does embellish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word embellish? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  2. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
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The stress deepened her dependence on alcohol, and her amateurish efforts to market her story led her to embellish the details of her espionage.
Add fresh flowers or small tree ornaments to embellish the wreath for a party.
My hope is that by making this public here, he will perhaps be dissuaded from continuing to embellish this story with false statements.
The Dutch, in particular, used clobbering to embellish Chinese blue and white export and Meissen porcelain during the 18th and 19th centuries.
While most of the panels were made to embellish walls in domestic settings, some were altar frontals.
Notice, too, that like good storytellers these advocates embellish the tale with some interesting exaggerations.

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