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beautify

[ byoo-tuh-fahy ]

/ ˈbyu təˌfaɪ /

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verb (used with or without object), beau·ti·fied, beau·ti·fy·ing.

to make or become beautiful.

Origin of beautify

First recorded in 1520–30; beauty + -fy

SYNONYMS FOR beautify

adorn, embellish, enhance; bedeck, array.

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OTHER WORDS FROM beautify

beau·ti·fi·ca·tion

[byoo-tuh-fi-key-shuhn] /ˌbyu tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/, noun beau·ti·fi·er, noun un·beau·ti·fied, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH beautify

beatify beautify

Words nearby beautify

beauteous, beautician, beautiful, beautiful people, beautifully, beautify, beauty, beauty contest, beauty is only skin deep, beauty queen, beauty salon

Example sentences from the Web for beautifying

Buonaparte laid out immense sums in furnishing and beautifying the Palais here.

Before and after Waterloo |Edward Stanley
Beautifying the school within and without; pictures, casts, flowers, etc.

Woman's Club Work and Programs |Caroline French Benton
For a republic will never do toward the beautifying a city or country what an Emperor will.

Nasby in Exile |David R. Locke
When America does take to beautifying her own home she will astonish the world.

The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 |Various

The great art of poets is either the adorning and beautifying of truth, or the inventing pleasing and probable fictions.

The Works of John Dryden. Now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 15. |John Dryden

British Dictionary definitions for beautifying

beautify

/ (ˈbjuːtɪˌfaɪ) /

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

to make or become beautiful

Derived forms of beautify

beautification (ˌbjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən), noun beautifier, noun