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单词 fancying up
释义

fancy up

verb

fancied up; fancying up; fancies up

transitive verb

: to add superficial adornment to

Synonyms

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

had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

fancying up

verb

present participle of fancy up
as in decorating
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • decorating
  • adorning
  • doing up
  • dolling up
  • gussying up
  • draping
  • glitzing (up)
  • trimming
  • prettying (up)
  • enriching
  • bedizening
  • dressing
  • ornamenting
  • painting
  • decking
  • embossing
  • fancifying
  • beautifying
  • gracing
  • garnishing
  • embellishing
  • emblazing
  • dressing up
  • caparisoning
  • blazoning
  • festooning
  • doing
  • bedecking
  • arraying
  • tricking (out)
  • sprucing (up)
  • trapping
  • brightening
  • accessorizing
  • embroidering
  • freshening
  • chasing
  • smartening
  • hanging
  • frilling
  • figuring
  • swagging
  • filigreeing
  • feathering
  • fringing
  • gilding
  • furbelowing
  • braiding
  • filleting
  • appliquéing
  • diamonding
  • impearling
  • bossing
  • garlanding
  • flouncing
  • ribboning
  • jeweling
  • redoing
  • wreathing
  • redecorating
  • lacing
  • gemming
  • pearling
  • jewelling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • simplifying
  • spoiling
  • streamlining
  • disfiguring
  • displaying
  • scarring
  • defacing
  • revealing
  • stripping
  • exposing
  • dismantling
  • marring
  • baring
  • uncovering
  • denuding
  • blemishing
  • divesting
  • uglifying
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