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
Elinor had never been able to do much towards the improvement of the outward appearance, however much she had beautified the interior.
From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox
All day the miller has sat apart, his snow-white head upon his arms, in the room her hands had beautified and made so dear.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
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
