embellish
/ɪmˈbel·ɪʃ/ v [T]Definition
› to make something more beautiful or interesting by additions or details: Many early building entrances were richly embellished. › If you embellish a story or statement, you add details that are not completely true in order to make it more interesting: He couldn’t resist embellishing his account of the African safari.
(Definition of embellish v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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