Definition of "embellish"

embellish

/ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present embellishes, present participle embellishing, simple past and past participle embellished
1. To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
2. (by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
  Quotations
  A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhedWith Natures pride, and richeſt furniture?His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods,His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
  Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.
  2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎, London
3. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.