decorate
/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/ verb B2- To furnish with decorations.
- To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office. · There's some paint left over from when we decorated the guest bedroom.· We moved in over a month ago but we still haven't gotten started on decorating.
- To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office. · People tend to decorate for the holidays or special events.
- To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment. · He was decorated for his service in three wars.
- To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
He/she/it decorates · Past decorated · Past participle decorated · -ing form decorating
Verb forms
- Base form
- decorate
- He/she/it
- decorates
- Past
- decorated
- Past participle
- decorated
- -ing form
- decorating
From the library
We are going to decorate the hall with creeping spruce and fir mottoes with pink tissue-paper roses in them.
All the Avonlea scholars were in a fever of excitement that day, for the hall had to be decorated and a last grand rehearsal held.
Allan wants us to decorate it,” cried Anne.
They had supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining room; Diana and Jane were invited to partake of this, also, since they had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found, having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation.
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