Decorated vs Embellished - What's the difference?
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(decorate)
To furnish with decorations.
To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
(computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
(embellish)
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
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To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
Decorated is a related term of embellished.
As verbs the difference between decorated and embellished
is that decorated is (decorate) while embellished is (embellish).decorated
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(head)decorate
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(decorat)- It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.
Synonyms
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* decorativeAnagrams
* ----embellished
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Verb
(head)embellish
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(es)- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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- to embellish a story, the truth