beautify

[ byoo-tuh-fahy ]

/ ˈbyu təˌfaɪ /

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

to make or become beautiful.

Nearby words

beautician, beautification, beautiful, beautiful people, beautifully, beautify, beauty, beauty contest, beauty is only skin deep, beauty mark, beauty parlor

Origin of beautify

First recorded in 1520–30; beauty + -fy

SYNONYMS FOR beautify

adorn, embellish, enhance; bedeck, array.

Related formsbeau·ti·fi·ca·tion

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

Can be confusedbeatify beautify

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Examples from the Web for beautified

It was a beautified camp the Nazis used to dupe international visitors and officials.
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Your men have beautified my library by making up the books and appending title-slips.
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All Christian graces are beautified by it; all Christian virtues are stimulated by it.
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Bel-Air had been beautified in the lovely exedra style for which Petit Trianon is noted.
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It would be, in my opinion, the more pleasing picture of the two, were its frame set off and beautified by patches of forest.
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Have they not beautified her cities and enacted laws for the protection of their subjects?
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British Dictionary definitions for beautified

beautify

/ (ˈbjuːtɪˌfaɪ) /

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

to make or become beautiful

Derived Formsbeautification (ˌbjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən), nounbeautifier, noun

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Word Origin and History for beautified

beautify

mid-15c., "to make beautiful," from beauty + -fy. Intransitive sense, "to become beautiful," is recorded from 1590s. Related: Beautified; beautifying.

beautify

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

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British Dictionary definitions for beautified

beautify

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

Word Origin and History for beautified

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