decorate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dec=o=rate
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

decorate, v.tr.
1 provide with adornments.
2 provide (a room or building) with new paint, wallpaper, etc.
3 serve as an adornment to.
4 confer an award or distinction on.

Idiom

Decorated style Archit. the second stage of English Gothic (14th c.), with increasing use of decoration and geometrical tracery.

Etymology

L decorare decorat- f. decus -oris beauty

THESAURUS

decorate

accouter, add, adjoin, adorn, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appoint, array, attach, beautify, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, burden, caparison, cite, color, complicate, conjoin, convolute, crown, crown with laurel, dandify, deck, deck out, dizen, do honor, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, encumber, enrich, equip, festoon, fig out, fix up, flourish, furbish, furnish, garnish, gild, glamorize, glue on, grace, gussy up, hitch on, honor, infix, involve, join with, load with ornament, ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, paint, paste on, pay regard to, pay tribute, plus, postfix, praise, prank, prank up, preen, prefix, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, put with, redecorate, redo, refurbish, render honor to, renovate, restore, saddle with, set off, set out, slap on, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, unite with, varnish, wallpaper

ROGET THESAURUS

decorate

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.