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    The article embellished the basic facts with emotional quotes and vivid descriptions.
    embellished = added detail
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    Still, all this might be bearable if only the grown-ups weren't in the habit of repeating the stories we hear from Mr. Kleiman, jan or Miep, each time embellishing them with a few details of their own, so that I often have to pinch my arm under the table to keep myself from setting the enthusiastic storyteller on the right track.  (source)
    embellishing = making more interesting by adding to
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    We had just heard the story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories, embellishing here or there to fill in the blanks.  (source)
    embellishing = making something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
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    A sword angled elegantly off of his hip, and circling his waist was a broad webbed belt embellished with an enormous metal buckle.†  (source)
    embellished = made more attractive or interesting through additions
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    The embellishments in the oblong room, though old and faded, were replete with familiar symbology.†  (source)
    embellishments = things added to make something more attractive or interesting
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    "The material world," continued Dupin, "abounds with very strict analogies to the immaterial; and thus some color of truth has been given to the rhetorical dogma, that metaphor, or simile, may be made to strengthen an argument, as well as to embellish a description."  (source)
    embellish = make something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
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    Like a scientist's assistant, his lot was simply to record the data and then relay a summary to his superiors without embellishment or elaboration.†  (source)
    embellishment = something added to increase attractiveness or interest
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    But when telling Augustus Waters, I painted the rosiest possible picture, embellishing the miraculousness of the miracle.†  (source)
    embellishing = making something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
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    I wonder whether we would have loved the weaker, flawed, unembellished version.†  (source)
    unembellished = without additions
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unembellished means not and reverses the meaning of embellished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech,—which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free,—so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; and this—this is my fortune—not chimerical, but actual.†  (source)
    embellishes = makes something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
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    So I again resorted to the lore Of my wise teacher, he, whom Mary's charms Embellish'd, as the sun the morning star; Who thus in answer spake: "In him are summ'd, Whatever of buxomness and free delight May be in Spirit, or in angel, met: And so beseems: for that he bare the palm Down unto Mary, when the Son of God Vouchsaf'd to clothe him in terrestrial weeds.†  (source)
    Embellish'd = made more attractive or interesting through additions
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    For the moment, Herschel gave every indication of being a liar, or at least a great embellisher.†  (source)
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    The obsidian walls were carved with scenes of death: plague victims, corpses on the battlefield, torture chambers with skeletons hanging in iron cages—all of it embellished with precious gems that somehow made the scenes even more ghastly.†  (source)
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