Meaning

(transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
2. (intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
3. (intransitive, rare) To make oneself beautiful.
4. (programming) Synonym of pretty-print.

Example Sentences

1592, Robert Greene, Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, London: William Wright, “Robertoes Tale” […] there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you:

And now, / This ornament [i.e. beard] / Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; / And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d, / To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify.

[…] she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay;

“[…] I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”

‘Boy, you take a big chance,’ Moses say. ‘Them pigeons there to beautify the park, not to eat. The people over here will kill you if you touch a fly.’

Officials are taking these old palm trees down in several parks and public spaces as they try to beautify the city, and prevent rotting tree trunks from falling on people.

[…] it must be a Prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his Creation for ever beautifying in his Eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater Degrees of Resemblance.

She’d felt silly when she first put cucumbers on her eyes (to diminish puffiness), or oatmeal on her face (to cleanse the pores and absorb excess oils), or egg yolks in her hair (to make it shine). Her use of groceries had even made my mother laugh, then wonder if she should start to beautify.

Word Forms

• beautifies
• beautifying
• beautified

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Use beautify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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