add bells and whistles, adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up*, elaborate, emblaze, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up*, fudge*, garnish, gild, give details, grace, gussy up, magnify, ornament, overstate, spiff up, spruce up*, trim
My grandiose style of writing will serve to embellish, in a sentence, my essay. My editor told me to embellish the story a bit.
Embellish it with some rinestones and it will be perfect!
Every year, the children would embellish the Christmas tree with ornaments and candy canes.She added sequins to embellish the dress.This is a wonderful essay, but it's hard to believe that your parents didn't embellish it a bit.Please just tell what happened; don't embellish it with blame or colorful descriptions.
To play [it] down Or if you mean literally 'embellish' as in 'to make beautiful' how about: To ruin
An opposite of the word embellish could be simplify.
Glamorize, adorn, embellish, or improve. Take your pick!
decorate, dress, clothe, array, adorn, embellish, festoon, beautify
My grandiose style of writing will serve to embellish, in a sentence, my essay. My editor told me to embellish the story a bit.
Yes, I have been known to embellish a feat or two... Let's not embellish our accomplishments.
Embellish it with some rinestones and it will be perfect!
Girls like to embellish their dolls when they are little.
Synonyms of the word fudge: fake, misrepresent avoid, embellish, embroider, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, falsify, hedge, magnify, overstate, patch, shuffle, slant, stall
Every year, the children would embellish the Christmas tree with ornaments and candy canes.She added sequins to embellish the dress.This is a wonderful essay, but it's hard to believe that your parents didn't embellish it a bit.Please just tell what happened; don't embellish it with blame or colorful descriptions.
To play [it] down Or if you mean literally 'embellish' as in 'to make beautiful' how about: To ruin
my hair needed a trim so i went to the barber shop to embellish it.
An opposite of the word embellish could be simplify.
Depending on context, "illuminate" could mean light, lighten, brighten, shine, irradiate, decorate, illustrate, embellish, adorn, ornament, clarify, elucidate, explain, reveal, demystify, exemplify, illustrate