English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French beaute (“beauty”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin facio (“make”).
Pronunciation
Verb
beautify (third-person singular simple present beautif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle beautified)
- (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.
- (intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
to make beautiful or more beautiful
- Arabic: جَمَّلَ (ar) (jammala)
- Armenian: զարդարել (hy) (zardarel)
- Bulgarian: разкрасявам (bg) (razkrasjavam), разхубавявам (bg) (razhubavjavam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 美化 (zh) (měihuà)
- Czech: krášlit (cs)
- Esperanto: beligi
- Finnish: kaunistaa (fi)
- French: embellir (fr)
- German: verschönern (de), ausschmücken (de)
- Hebrew: ייפה (yipá), קישט (kishét)
- Hungarian: szépít (hu)
- Icelandic: fegra
- Ido: beligar (io)
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- Irish: áilligh, breáthaigh, maisigh, barr maise a chur ar
- Italian: abbellire (it)
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- Japanese: 美しくする (ja) (utsukushiku suru), 美化する (bika suru)
- Latin: decoro, extollo, orno, venusto
- Maltese: jsebbħu, sebbah
- Maori: whakapaipai, whakarāwai, whakapīwari
- Norwegian: forskjønne
- Persian: زیبیدن (fa) (zibidan), برازیدن (fa) (barâzidan)
- Portuguese: embelezar (pt)
- Russian: украша́ть (ru) (ukrašátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Ekavian) улѐпшати, (Ijekavian) уљѐпшати
- Roman: (Ekavian) ulèpšati, (Ijekavian) uljèpšati (sh)
- Spanish: embellecer (es)
- Turkish: güzelleştirmek (tr)
- Volapük: jönön (vo), jönükön (vo)
- Yiddish: באַשײַנען (bashaynen)
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