Meaning & use
Embellishing
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making something more attractive by adding decorative details, or exaggerating a story with extra, often invented, details.
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She spent hours embellishing the wedding invitations with gold foil accents.
He couldn't resist embellishing the story of his fishing trip each time he told it.
A note on using this word
From Old French "embellir," meaning to make beautiful; today it applies both to physical decoration and to storytelling.
Words with a similar meaning
decoratingadorningexaggerating
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Words with an opposite meaning
simplifyingplaining
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