Verb

(es)

To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

The old book cover was embellished with golden letters

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To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.

to embellish a story, the truth

Verb

To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

to strew sand over a floor

* , Romeo and Juliet , act 5, sc. 3:

Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew .

* Dryden

And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.

* Beaconsfield

On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.

To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.

Leaves strewed the ground.

* Spenser

The snow which does the top of Pindus strew .

* Alexander Pope

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?

To spread abroad; to disseminate.

* Shakespeare

She may strew dangerous conjectures.