embellish
/em-BEL-ish/verbto decorate; to make a story more interesting by adding details
“Each retelling embellished the catch by a kilo.”
- Synonyms
- adorn, ornament, exaggerate
- Antonyms
- simplify, strip
- Memory hook
- em + bel (beautiful): beautify — sometimes past the truth.
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