[ US /ˈdɛkɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /dˈɛkəɹˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
    He was decorated for his services in the military
  2. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
    Decorate the room for the party
    beautify yourself for the special day
  3. be beautiful to look at
    Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
  4. provide with decoration
    dress the windows
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How To Use decorate In A Sentence

  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • According to what I read in a couple of dictionaries, "gild" means to decorate the outside of something, usually unnecessarily. Untwisted Vortex
  • Decorate the cake with chocolate curls.
  • The boys are planning to decorate when they get the time.
  • Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
  • All the accommodation is decorated in as minimalist fashion as luxury will allow, reflecting the vibrant colours of the region, from warm terracotta to the cool turquoise of the sea.
  • There were floating candles that decorated the pool and the fountain, as well as ornamental flowers arrangements.
  • Clean and cheerful, the rooms are decorated with children's artwork and handicrafts.
  • He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • In the background is a large lacquered coffer, its side decorated with a flying bird and another perched in a tree.
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