Embellish vs Variegate - 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 add variety to something; to diversify
to change the appearance of something, especially by covering with patches or streaks of different colour
to dabble
variegated
As verbs the difference between embellish and variegate
is that embellish is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while variegate is to add variety to something; to diversify.As an adjective variegate is
variegated.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