beautify

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbjuː.tɪ.faɪ/

Verb

beautify (third-person singular simple present beautifies, present participle beautifying, simple past and past participle beautified)

1. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

Synonyms

• adorn
• decorate
• ornament
• prettify

Related terms

• beautification
• beautifier
• beautifiable

Translations

to make beautiful or more beautiful

• Armenian: զարդարել (hy) (zardarel)
• Bulgarian: разкрасявам (bg) (razkrasjavam), разхубавявам (bg) (razhubavjavam)
• Czech: krášlit (cs)
• Finnish: kaunistaa (fi)
• German: verschönern, ausschmücken
• Hebrew: ייפה (he) (yipá), קישט (he) (kishét)
• Hungarian: szépít (hu)
• Icelandic: fegra (is)
• Italian: abbellire (it)
• Latin: decoro, extollo, orno, venusto (la)

• Norwegian: forskjønne (no)
• Portuguese: embelezar (pt)
• Russian: украшать (ru) (ukrashat')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) улѐпшати (sh), (Ijekavian) уљѐпшати (sh)

  Roman: (Ekavian) ulèpšati (sh), (Ijekavian) uljèpšati (sh)

• Turkish: güzelleştirmek (tr)
• Volapük: jönön (vo), jönükön (vo)