Synonyms for decorate
ˈdɛk əˌreɪtdec·o·rate

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1. decorate

   To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

   At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
   His looks adorned the venerable place.
   

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

   Synonyms:
   adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate, ornament

   Antonyms:
   deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

   Preposition:
   Adorn his temples with a coronet.

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1. decorate

   Synonyms:
   seemliness, propriety, dignity, order, decency, good manners, good behavior, modesty

   Antonyms:
   unseemliness, impropriety, disturbance, disorder

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1. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb

   make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, beautify, pad, dramatize, invest

2. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb

   be beautiful to look at

   "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, bedeck, ornament, adorn, dump, deck, clothe, aggrandise, invest, blow up, aggrandize, embroider, dress, lard, coldcock, embellish, prettify, bedight, beautify, floor, knock down, pad, dramatize

3. decorateverb

   award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to

   "He was decorated for his services in the military"

   Synonyms:
   deck, grace, dress, beautify, adorn, ornament, embellish

4. dress, decorateverb

   provide with decoration

   "dress the windows"

   Synonyms:
   line up, curry, clip, preen, apparel, ornament, primp, prune, garment, habilitate, beautify, trim, dress out, arrange, adorn, embellish, garb, raiment, coiffe, do, coiffure, get dressed, plume, coif, deck, garnish, fit out, crop, dress up, clothe, tog, cut back, enclothe, set, snip, lop, grace, dress, groom

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1. decorateverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, deck, ornament, embellish, beautify

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1. decorateverb

   Synonyms:
   embellish, adorn, beautify, ornament, garnish, enrich, trim, bedizen, bedeck

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1. List of paraphrases for "decorate":

   adorn, redecorate

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1. Amy Beck:

   Some people do not want to spend $ 200 on a small six-inch cake, but what people need to understand is that all the same processes go into a small cake that go into a large cake. You still have to bake, stack... make all the decorations, decorate the cake, put [ it ] on a presentation board, put it into a box and get it ready.

2. James Gannon:

   She said at the time that it was something you would pick up at a junk shop, but it's really just the fact that she took the time to decorate it and the fact she actually wrote the books on it that is important.

3. James Gannon:

   She (Rowling) said at the time that it was something you would pick up at a junk shop, but it's really just the fact that she took the time to decorate it and the fact she actually wrote the books on it that is important.

4. Principal Dionne Kirksey:

   You really can't tell that it's a hidden gem, we not only support our kids in the building and their educational level, but we support them outside the building in their endeavors. And we still attend their graduations. We send them off to college and actually decorate their dorm rooms. We go to their baby's birthday parties. It's just a plethora of things that we do just to engage, to have that sense of family.

5. Lyn Wadley:

   It may have been used as decorative paint. It could have been used to decorate animals hides. We have not found the evidence for the way that they used it, we just know that they used it.