Usually means: Adds details to enhance appearance.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. embellishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. embellishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embellishes: Vocabulary.com
  4. embellishes: Wordnik
  5. embellishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embellishes: Wiktionary
  7. embellishes: Dictionary.com
  8. embellishes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. embellishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embellishes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See embellish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (embellish)

verb:  To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
verb:  (by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
verb:  To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
▸ Also see embellish


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