Embellish vs Glorify - What's the difference?
embellish | glorify |
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 exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone)
to make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is
to worship or extol
As verbs the difference between embellish and glorify
is that embellish is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while glorify is to exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).embellish
English
Verb
(es)- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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- to embellish a story, the truth