different between adorn vs betrim

English

Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin ad?rn?re, present active infinitive of ad?rn?; from ad +? ?rn? (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??d??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

adorn (third-person singular simple present adorns, present participle adorning, simple past and past participle adorned)

1. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

Synonyms

• beautify
• bedeck
• decorate
• deck
• grace
• ornament
• prettify
• See also Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

Noun

adorn

1. (obsolete) adornment

Adjective

adorn

1. (obsolete) adorned; ornate

Related terms

Anagrams

• Ardon, Daron, Doran, Drona, NORAD, Nador, Nardo, Ronda, and/or, andro, andro-, norad, radon, rando

English

Etymology

From be- +? trim.

Verb

betrim (third-person singular simple present betrims, present participle betrimming, simple past and past participle betrimmed) (transitive)

1. To set in order; to adorn, deck, or embellish.

   • Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims

     Which ?pungie Aprill, at thy he?t betrims;

     To make cold Nymphes cha?t crownes; […]

   • 1845, William Tennant, Esther; or the Fall of Haman, Act III, Scene 3, in Hebrew Dramas, Edinburgh: John Menzies, p. 178,^[1]

     I must betrim myself to-day in all

     My rarest ornaments of royalty;

   • 1897, Margaret Sidney, Phronsie Pepper, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 8, p. 130,^[2]

     Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.

2. To trim (anything) about.

Anagrams

• biterm, timber, timbre