| 单词 | decorate |
| 释义 | decorate (once / 185 pages) v Putting up paintings, stringing up lights, and getting some flowers are all ways to decorate a house. When you decorate, you make things look better or at least more interesting. Even an attractively furnished home can be decorated for a holiday or party. That means you dress up your house to celebrate the special occasion. Decorate is also used to describe certain kinds of success. A famous athlete might decorate a gym with trophies and championship rings. We say a person in the military, like a general, is decorated when he or she is given medals for bravery or other accomplishments. WORD FAMILYdecorate: decorated, decorates, decorating, decoration, decorative, decorator, redecorate+/decor: decorate, decors/decorated: undecorated/decoration: decorations/decorative: decoratively, decorativeness/decorator: decorators/redecorate: redecorated, redecorates, redecorating USAGE EXAMPLESNearly every business in town — from the beauty salon to the local tourism agency — decorates its storefront with big bags of rice and sugar. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Earlier this week, Klein and customer Duane Frick were alone inside the sparsely decorated shop. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “If someone steals a stone to decorate their back yard,” he says, “you’ve lost a tangible part of Mason’s and Dixon’s historic achievement.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v make more attractive by adding ornament, color, etc. Decorate the room for the party Syn|Hypo|Hyper adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament ornament be an ornament to wreathe decorate or deck with wreaths beset, encrust, incrustdecorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) braiddecorate with braids or ribbons broider, embroiderdecorate with needlework stickcover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface illustratesupply with illustrations garlandadorn with bands of flowers or leaves fledge, flightdecorate with feathers bespangle, spangledecorate with spangles foliatedecorate with leaves flagdecorate with flags bard, barde, caparison, dress upput a caparison on beaddecorate by sewing beads onto pipetrim with piping appliquesew on as a decoration gild the lily, paint the lilyadorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful) vermiculatedecorate with wavy or winding lines smockembellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally hangdecorate or furnish with something suspended prankdress or decorate showily or gaudily tinseladorn with tinsel tart updecorate in a cheap and flashy way stuccodecorate with stucco work redecorateredo the decoration of an apartment or house paneldecorate with panels bejewel, jeweladorn or decorate with precious stones filet, filletdecorate with a lace of geometric designs scallopdecorate an edge with scallops bedizendecorate tastelessly dress shipdecorate a ship with flags dress, garnish, trimdecorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods trimdecorate, as with ornaments bedeck, bedight, deckdecorate festoondecorate with strings of flowers enamelcoat, inlay, or surface with enamel inlaydecorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal lacquercoat with lacquer begild, engild, gilddecorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold illuminateadd embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) blazon, emblazondecorate with heraldic arms color, colour, emblazondecorate with colors fringeadorn with a fringe fretdecorate with an interlaced design landscapeembellish with plants faggot, fagotornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch purlembroider with gold or silver thread purledge or border with gold or silver embroidery plumedeck with a plume hatchinlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating damasceneinlay metal with gold and silver japancoat with a lacquer, as done in Japan miniate, rubricatedecorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red miniatepaint with red lead or vermilion alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v provide with decoration Syn|Hyper dress arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order 3v award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to He was decorated for his services in the military Hyper honor, honour, reward bestow honor or rewards upon 4v be beautiful to look at Syn|Hypo|Hyper adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace ornament be an ornament to be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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