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.”
In the other corner was the aforesaid three-cornered table adorned with a fat, red velvet pincushion hard enough to turn the point of the most adventurous pin.
The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs.
All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen’s taste.
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