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beautify
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, trimROGET 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.For further exploring for "beautify" in Webster Dictionary Online