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adorn

verb as in decorate

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They receive money for food, and satellite dishes adorn many of the housing units.

Elaborate, thousand-year-old murals featuring religious scenes adorn the walls of many temples.

The trio haunted east coast flea markets, sourcing knickknacks that would adorn the lobby and guest rooms.

Typical of most old cemeteries, eerie carved-stone Angels of Death and other ghoulish figures adorn many of the tombstones.

Fading newspaper clippings about her family adorn the walls near her office in the entryway to the compound.

They name the deceased child an angelito, (little angel), and adorn it in every possible way.

Shortly there appeared a youngish man, constructed by nature to adorn wearing apparel.

He liked to adorn her with jewels, to see her dance, and to tell her what sport he had had with his dogs and his falcons.

Such men could not fail to adorn the faith they professed, and do honour to the Church in which they had been nurtured.

It is only,” replies the friar, “to grace and adorn my speech; it is the colour of a Ciceronian rhetoric.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adorn, such as: beautify, bedeck, deck, dress up, embellish, and grace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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