beautify

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: beau=ti=fy
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

beautify, v. t. [Beauty + -fy.].

 To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.  [1913 Webster]
"The arts that beautify and polish life."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.

beautify, v. i. 

 To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beautify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied) make beautiful; adorn.

Derivative

beautification n. beautifier n.

THESAURUS

beautify

adorn, array, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, evolve, fig out, finish, fix up, furbish, garnish, glamorize, grace, gussy up, mature, ornament, paint, perfect, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

ROGET THESAURUS

beautify

Beauty

VB be beautiful, shine, beam, bloom, become one, set off, grace, render beautiful, beautify, polish, burnish, gild, set out, snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Ornament

VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.