beautify
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become beautiful.
had beautified
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past perfectof beautify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The city had beautified Grandview Street above the Puget Sound, but the barbed-wire fence on the Sound side of the street was covering up overgrown county land, spoiling the effect.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2014
Each stone was a mouth, speaking for a family, for some man who had beautified his doorstep.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
His mother had been peculiarly fond of flowers, and when obliged to give up her garden, had beautified and planted her husband's grave with some of the choicest of her treasures.
From Watch—Work—Wait Or, The Orphan's Victory by Sarah A. (Sarah Ann) Myers
She gave him her hand; and he thought as he looked at her how happiness had beautified and transformed her.
From The Coryston Family A Novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Though probably fifty years of age, she had beautified herself, and concealed the touch of time by streaks of soot carefully laid on over her face and body.
From Journal of an African Cruiser by Nathaniel Hawthorne
