Embellish vs Diversify - What's the difference?
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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.
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Embellish is a related term of diversify.
As verbs the difference between embellish and diversify
is that embellish is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while diversify is to make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.embellish
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Verb
(es)- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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- to embellish a story, the truth