0 to make something more beautiful by adding something to it: --
1 to make something more beautiful or interesting by additions or details: --
They fabricate, embellish, or restructure their recollections in order to pander to the pleasure, curiosity, and predilections of others.
The composer's genuine gift for illuminating and embellishing texts was instantly in evidence.
In general, children who engage in rich, embellished reminiscing with their caregivers come to discuss their past experiences in more coherent and detailed ways.
In this case, oral sources over several generations had embellished actual events to create an edifying and dramatic, but entirely fictitious, tale of divine retribution.
The story was embellished and retold in plays, ballads, and chapbooks.
Although the story is embellished and varied in myriad guises, the basic outline remains essentially the same.
A little fewer than a third of the speakers provided examples where they had been able to refine or embellish the narrative during planning time.
The group appeared to play from a single line, embellishing this with heterophonous ornamentation.
