to beautify
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3.2
- verb
- /ˈbjuːtəˌfaɪ/
:
embellecer
- Look, we're beautifying the world with our amazing art!
- beautifying the city
- beautify our homes
And he says that people beautify what they love and death repels us.
- And he says that people beautify what they love and death repels us.
- I'm going to let Ollie put on his muzak and I'm going to beautify myself.
- And if we think that it's important to clean and and beautify the body, then we should think even more so of our minds or our souls.
- And Lady Bird Johnson came along and said we need to beautify America, and we did.
- Also in the silence of, you know, beautifying your garden, whatever it is, right?
- But secondly, I think it's obvious that there will be a role for humans to beautify these arguments.
Examples
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The volunteers worked hard to beautify the playground by painting fences and planting trees.
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Such practices can also cool and beautify neighborhoods and thereby provide both social and economic benefits.
Blog text (32) -
And Lady Bird Johnson came along and said we need to beautify America, and we did.
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Did your part to beautify America.
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Love your life, respect your life, and beautify all things in your life.
Blog text (17) -
I kind of want to buy the lot next door and beautify it.
Blog text (3) -
While I had done much of the cleaning, they provided the eyes to really beautify the place.
Blog text (8) -
Hey, let's beautify the neighborhood
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All of these service learning projects help to beautify the campus of the Kumasi Children's Home.
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Throughout the city, gardeners have beautified numerous hectares of land and serve as something like park rangers.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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4.0
Make something better or more attractive
226
1.9
To make something look nicer by adding paint, ornaments, or other items
76
3.8
To repair and improve a building or room so it looks new again
66
3.8
To make something more beautiful or admired
56
3.4
Make something look nicer or more attractive for a special event
45
4.9
To put decorations on something to make it look more beautiful
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3.2
To change the inside of a room by adding new paint, wallpaper, or furniture
31
4.6
To make something clean and like new by fixing or decorating it
31
4.1
To decorate something to make it look festive
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4.1
To make a place or person look neat and smart
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3.8
To add small items like jewelry or scarves to clothes to make them look nicer
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3.8
To make yourself or a place look cleaner and nicer
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6.3
To make something more beautiful by adding decorative details
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4.2
To make small changes to the look of hair or a photo
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3.0
Make a room look cleaner and nicer with small changes
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3.7
To add decorations to something to make it look nicer
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7.2
Make a person or place look neater and nicer by cleaning and adding small things
1
5.7
Make something look nicer by adding decorations
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5.0
Make something look more attractive, often only on the surface
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5.8
To make something better in how it works or how it looks
Make something look more attractive by adding decorations
To make a place or yourself neat and look nicer
To make something or yourself look neat and attractive
Make something look more expensive by adding nicer things
To make something look more beautiful or artistic
Antonyms
How Beautiful
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3.4
226
1.9
9
3.2
45
4.9
- Informal
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beautify comes from beauty plus the ending -fy, which means 'to make', just like in simplify. So to beautify something is to 'make' it more beautiful by decorating or improving its look.