Synonyms of the word decorate


DECORATEADORN - ALTER - ARRANGE - BE - BEAUTIFY - CHANGE - DECK - DRESS - EMBELLISH - GRACE - HONOR - HONOUR - MODIFY - ORNAMENT - REWARD

decorate

  • v. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
  • v. (transitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • v. (computing, transitive) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further…

adorn

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • n. (obsolete) adornment.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

arrange

  • v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • v. To put in order, to organize.
  • v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beautify

  • v. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

deck

  • n. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  • n. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels…
  • n. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  • n. A pack or set of playing cards.
  • n. A set of slides for a presentation.
  • n. (obsolete) A heap or store.
  • v. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • v. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  • v. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result.
  • v. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  • v. (transitive, with out) To decorate (something).
  • v. To cover; to overspread.

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

embellish

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

grace

  • n. (not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
  • n. (not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
  • n. (not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given…
  • n. (not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
  • n. (countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
  • n. (finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal…
  • n. (card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
  • v. (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
  • v. (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
  • v. (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

honor

  • n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
  • n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
  • n. A privilege.
  • n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
  • n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
  • n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
  • n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
  • n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
  • n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
  • v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
  • v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
  • v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

honour

  • n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
  • v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

ornament

  • n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
  • n. A Christmas tree decoration.
  • n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
  • v. To decorate.
  • v. To add to.

reward

  • n. Something of value given in return for an act.
  • n. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch.
  • n. The result of an action, whether good or bad.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
  • v. (transitive) To give a reward to or for.
  • v. (transitive) To recompense.

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