Hundreds of years ago, married Japanese women would blacken their teeth to beautify themselves.
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Beautify
//ˈbjuː.tɪ.faɪ//
Synonyms for "beautify" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
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10 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- جَمَّلَ verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Armenian
1 entries- զարդարել verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разкрасявам verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- разхубавявам verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 美化 verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Czech
1 entries- krášlit verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Esperanto
1 entries- beligi verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Finnish
1 entries- kaunistaa verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
French
1 entries- embellir verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
German
2 entries- ausschmücken verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- verschönern verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Greek
2 entries- καλλωπίζω verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- ομορφαίνω verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Hebrew
2 entries- ייפה verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- קישט verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Hungarian
1 entries- szépít verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Icelandic
1 entries- fegra verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Ido
1 entries- beligar verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Irish
4 entries- barr maise a chur ar verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- breáthaigh verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- maisigh verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- áilligh verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Italian
1 entries- abbellire verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Japanese
2 entries- 美しくする verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- 美化する verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Kazakh
1 entries- әшекейлеу verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Latin
4 entries- decoro verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- extollo verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- orno verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- venusto verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Maltese
2 entries- jsebbħu verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- sebbah verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Māori
4 entries- whakapaipai verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- whakapīwari verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- whakarāwai verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- whakaātaahua verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Nheengatu
2 entries- mpuranga verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- mupuranga verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Norwegian
1 entries- forskjønne verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Persian
3 entries- برازیدن verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- زیبادن verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- زیبیدن verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Polish
2 entries- upiększać verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- upiększyć verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Portuguese
1 entries- embelezar verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Romanian
1 entries- înfrumuseța verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Russian
1 entries- украша́ть verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- uljèpšati verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- ulèpšati verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- улѐпшати verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- уљѐпшати verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Spanish
3 entries- embellecer verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- enchular verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- hermosear verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Turkish
1 entries- güzelleştirmek verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Volapük
2 entries- jönön verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
- jönükön verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַשײַנען verb (to make beautiful or more beautiful)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
In an effort to beautify their unattractive parking lot, the restaurant bought two old railway cars and planted a variety of vegetables on top of them, turning the lot into a garden and seating area.
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We use them to beautify our home.
Source: tatoeba (11854088)
Does good architecture just serve to beautify our constructed surroundings, or does it also have other qualities?
Source: tatoeba (13099429)
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