embellish
to decorate or add attractive detail
Roots
- bell / beauty: beautiful or fair
- in- / im- (in/into): in, into, within, or on
Other words with the bell / beauty root
- beautiful: pleasing or lovely to see or feel
Embellish means make more beautiful or dress up with added detail.
She embellished the plain border with a thin line of gold.
Beautiful keeps the root familiar. Embellish adds en-: to put beauty onto something, sometimes honestly as decoration and sometimes too much as exaggeration.