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Definition
make something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
- My eyes were okay— they were mud-colored on an average day and green if I felt like embellishing—but most of all, they showed the part of me I was proud of: my intelligence.
- What if the gospels that had been dismissed and debunked were the real ones, and the ones that had been picked for the New Testament were the embellished versions?
There are no more uses of "embellish" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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