different between embellishes vs adorn
embellishes
English
Verb
embellishes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embellish
embellishes From the web:
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adorn
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)
- 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.
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
Synonyms
- beautify
- bedeck
- decorate
- deck
- grace
- ornament
- prettify
- See also Thesaurus:decorate
Translations
Noun
adorn
- (obsolete) adornment
Adjective
adorn
- (obsolete) adorned; ornate
Related terms
Anagrams
- Ardon, Daron, Doran, Drona, NORAD, Nador, Nardo, Ronda, and/or, andro, andro-, norad, radon, rando
adorn From the web:
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