agghindare — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
agghindare is used for these senses in English:
- bedizen (also, figurative) To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
- embellish To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
- gild the lily (idiomatic) To embellish or improve something unnecessarily.
- spruce up (idiomatic) To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.
bedizen — full definition
- verb To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
- verb To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.
embellish — full definition
- verb To decorate something to make it more attractive.
- verb To make a story sound more interesting or impressive than it really is, often by exaggerating or adding invented details.