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adorn verb [ əˈdɔːn ]

• make more beautiful or attractive.
• "pictures and prints adorned his walls"
Similar: embellish, decorate, furnish, ornament, add ornament to, enhance, beautify, prettify, grace, enrich, bedeck, deck (out), dress (up), trick out, trim, swathe, wreathe, festoon, garland, array, garnish, emblazon, gild, set off, get up, do up, do out, bejewel, bedizen, caparison, furbelow,
Opposite: strip, disfigure,
Origin: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin adornare, from ad- ‘to’ + ornare ‘deck, add lustre’.


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