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Definition

to decorate — especially a person

The women adorned themselves with shell necklaces.

adorned = decorated

Flowers adorned all the tables.

adorned = decorated

When the Nazis usurped the swastika, she stopped using it to adorn her sculptures.

adorn = decorate

Bob's tail makes me dizzy and confused. It has meanings within meanings, like human words. "I am sad," it says. "I am happy." It says, "Beware! I may be tiny, but my teeth are sharp."
Gorillas don't have any use for tails. Our feelings are uncomplicated. Our rumps are unadorned.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

unadorned = not decorated

(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unadorned means not and reverses the meaning of adorned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

There were also precious stones, gold masks adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues embedded with jewels.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
She opened the casement to get a better view of the garlands and posies that adorned it.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
When she'd served all the Danes and the lesser Geats, she stood, red hair flowing, her neck and arms adorned in gold, by the leader of the strangers.
John Gardner -- Grendel
There was a visiting cardinal in the glorious tasselled hat which still adorns the notepaper of Wolsey's College at Oxford.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Then he worked three more years to adorn them with uniforms and equipment.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
A return after long wanderingswas the inscription adorning the stone above Franz's grave.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ornate bows adorned the backs of chairs.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
The only adornment was a bit of lace at the neck and jet buttons down the front.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
The speech of the land is grass and trees; the adornment is beasts and birds.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
It was white, gauzy, and light, adorned with one long stream of green and blue tulle running along the right side.
Kiera Cass -- The Elite
He needed Transito Ariza then as he never had before, he needed her wise words, her head of a mock queen adorned with paper flowers.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
The presidential seal seems to adorn every fixture.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
His shoes were polished, his nails were clean, his hat was well brushed, and a white handkerchief adorned his breast pocket.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
It is the room's only adornment.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

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