Synonyms of the word

garnish

• v. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
• v. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
• v. To furnish; to supply.
• v. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
• v. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
• n. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
• n. Pewter vessels in general.
• n. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy…
• n. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
• n. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from…

adorn

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• n. (obsolete) adornment.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

beautify

• v. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

confiscate

• v. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
• adj. (obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.

decorate

• v. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
• v. (transitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
• v. (computing, transitive) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further…

decoration

• n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
• n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
• n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

embellish

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

garnishee

• n. (law) the person whose money is garnished.
• v. (transitive, law) the act of attaching the property sought to be secured.

grace

• n. (not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
• n. (not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
• n. (not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given…
• n. (not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
• n. (countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
• n. (finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal…
• n. (card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
• v. (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
• v. (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
• v. (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
• v. (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

impound

• v. (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
• v. (transitive) To hold back (for example water by a dam).
• v. (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
• v. (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on…
• n. A place in which things are impounded.
• n. A state of being impounded.
• n. That which has been impounded.
• n. (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for…

ornament

• n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
• n. A Christmas tree decoration.
• n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
• v. To decorate.
• v. To add to.

ornamentation

• n. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
• n. The act or process of decorating etc.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

sequester

• v. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
• v. To separate in order to store.
• v. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
• v. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
• v. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against…
• v. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,…
• v. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
• v. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
• v. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
• v. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
• n. sequestration; separation.
• n. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy;…
• n. (medicine) A sequestrum.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.