Definition of Decorate

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Decorate

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

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Decorate Quotations

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Franz Schubert

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller

Decorate Translations

decorate in Dutch is versieren
decorate in Italian is adornare, guarnire
decorate in Norwegian is dekorere
decorate in Portuguese is decore
decorate in Spanish is decorar, ornar, adornar
decorate in Swedish is smycka, dekorera, pryda

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