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beautify

verb
/ˈbjuː.tɪ.faɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).

  1. derived from facio
  2. derived from bellus
  3. derived from beaute
  4. inherited from beutifien

Definitions

  1. To make beautiful

    To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.

    • And now, / This ornament [i.e. beard] / Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; / And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d, / To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify.
    • […] she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay;

  2. To become beautiful.

    • […] it must be a Prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his Creation for ever beautifying in his Eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater Degrees of Resemblance.

  3. To make oneself beautiful.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Synonym of pretty-print.

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Derived

rebeautify, unbeautify

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beautify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01beautify02increase03multiply04perform05pattern06decorative07decoration08beautifies

A definitional loop anchored at beautify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at beautify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA