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ausschmücken — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amplify verb To increase the strength, volume, or intensity of something, especially a sound or signal.
  • beautify verb To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  • decorate verb To add ornaments or decorations to something, or to improve the appearance of a room or building.
  • embellish verb To decorate something to make it more attractive.
  • emblazon verb To adorn with prominent markings.
  • embroider verb To decorate fabric with a needle and coloured thread in a pattern or design.

Senses

ausschmücken is used for these senses in English:

  • amplify (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
  • beautify (transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  • decorate (ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
  • embellish To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.
  • emblazon (transitive) To adorn with prominent markings.
  • embroider (figuratively) To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.
  • flesh out (idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.

amplify — full definition

  1. verb To increase the strength, volume, or intensity of something, especially a sound or signal.
  2. verb To explain or develop an idea in greater detail.

beautify — full definition

  1. verb To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  2. verb To become beautiful.
  3. verb To make oneself beautiful.
  4. verb Synonym of pretty-print.

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