adorn
/əˈdɔɹn/ verb B2- To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. · a man adorned with noble statuary and columns· A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.
He/she/it adorns · Past adorned · Past participle adorned · -ing form adorning
Verb forms
- Base form
- adorn
- He/she/it
- adorns
- Past
- adorned
- Past participle
- adorned
- -ing form
- adorning
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“Certainly; your name is popular, and does honor to the title they have adorned it with; but you are too intelligent not to know that according to a prejudice, too firmly rooted to be exterminated, a nobility which dates back five centuries is worth more than one that can only reckon twenty years.”
White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a lion.
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
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