Usually means: Adding details to enhance appearance.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word Embellishing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. embellishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. embellishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embellishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Embellishing, embellishing: Wordnik
  5. embellishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embellishing: Wiktionary
  7. Embellishing, embellishing: Dictionary.com
  8. embellishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Embellishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Embellishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. embellishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. embellishing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. embellishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embellishing)

▸ noun:  An embellishment.

Similar:
decorate, ornament, adorn, prettify, beautify, aggrandize, dramatize, dramatise, grace, blow up, more...

Opposite:
simplifying, decreasing, streamlining, paring down, stripping down

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Similar:
decorate, ornament, adorn, prettify, beautify, aggrandize, dramatize, dramatise, grace, blow up, more...

Opposite:
simplifying, decreasing, streamlining, paring down, stripping down



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