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单词 beautifies
释义

beautify

verb

beau·​ti·​fy ˈbyü-tə-ˌfī How to pronounce beautify (audio)
beautified; beautifying

transitive verb

: to make beautiful or add beauty to

intransitive verb

: to grow beautiful
beautification
ˌbyü-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce beautify (audio)
noun
beautifier
ˈbyü-tə-ˌfī(-ə)r How to pronounce beautify (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • adorn
  • array
  • bedeck
  • bedizen
  • blazon
  • caparison
  • deck
  • decorate
  • do
  • do up
  • doll up
  • drape
  • dress
  • embellish
  • emblaze
  • emboss
  • enrich
  • fancify
  • fancy up
  • festoon
  • garnish
  • glitz (up)
  • grace
  • gussy up
  • ornament
  • pretty (up)
  • trim
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Example Sentences

Fresh flowers beautify every room. volunteers beautified the roadside landscape by planting flowers
Recent Examples on the Web Hartford — Armed with garbage bags, gloves and trash pickers, more than 100 volunteers gathered in the North End on Saturday morning to beautify and reinvigorate their neighborhood at the Barbour Street Community Cleanup. Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2022 Mayor Mike Duggan and the Detroit Office of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship (ACE) announced a $3-million pilot plan on Wednesday to beautify alleys in five neighborhoods in an effort to combat blight and create gathering spaces. Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2022 Roskill contributed to a project created by the Natick Center Cultural District to beautify and brighten downtown Natick through public art. Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022 San Antonio is giving residents a chance beautify the city — one brushstroke at a time. Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 27 June 2022 Riding high after the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago’s civic and business leaders were looking to permanently beautify their city. Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2022 The work to beautify the streets and sidewalks in one of Atlanta’s most impoverished areas began in 2016 after then-Mayor Kasim Reed initially proposed it in 2013. Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 14 June 2022 The photographic image became—and remained for at least a century—a guiding ideal, offering scientists the possibility of representing the world without succumbing to the human temptation to interpret or beautify. Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022 The Canal Street art hub is adorned with a bike sculpture, bench, and mural, while train murals beautify Centre Street. Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English bewtyfien, from beaute beauty + -fien -fy

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Kids Definition

beautify

verb

beau·​ti·​fy ˈbyü-tə-ˌfī How to pronounce beautify (audio)
beautified; beautifying
: to make beautiful
We beautified the room with flowers.

beautifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of beautify
as in decorates
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming volunteers beautified the roadside landscape by planting flowers

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • decorates
  • adorns
  • enriches
  • drapes
  • embellishes
  • graces
  • trims
  • ornaments
  • embosses
  • dresses
  • festoons
  • paints
  • garnishes
  • bedecks
  • brightens
  • decks
  • does
  • caparisons
  • arrays
  • fancifies
  • freshens
  • blazons
  • does up
  • pretties (up)
  • embroiders
  • glitzes (up)
  • emblazes
  • dolls up
  • gussies up
  • bedizens
  • gilds
  • accessorizes
  • fancies up
  • traps
  • hangs
  • smartens
  • chases
  • garlands
  • frills
  • jewels
  • ribbons
  • filigrees
  • flounces
  • braids
  • dresses up
  • wreathes
  • fringes
  • furbelows
  • feathers
  • gems
  • fillets
  • appliqués
  • swags
  • redecorates
  • figures
  • diamonds
  • redoes
  • bosses
  • tricks (out)
  • pearls
  • laces
  • spruces (up)
  • impearls

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • disfigures
  • defaces
  • scars
  • simplifies
  • spoils
  • streamlines
  • reveals
  • mars
  • displays
  • denudes
  • exposes
  • dismantles
  • blemishes
  • uncovers
  • bares
  • divests
  • strips
  • uglifies
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