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embellish (выдумкой рассказ и т. п.; to increase the interest of (a story etc.) by adding (untrue) details • The soldier embellished the story of his escape); embroider (рассказ); flatter (to show, describe etc. someone or something as being better than someone etc. really is • The photograph flatters him); paint in bright colours; saccharinize; farce (пикантными подробностями); gloss; prettify; smarten (to make or become smarter); varnish; adorn; dress up (gogolesque2); gloss over (AMlingua); exaggerate (Anglophile); give positive coloring (Alex_Odeychuk); glamorise (to make glamorous • This film attempts to glamorize war); glamorize; glamourize; aggrandize; paint in bright colors; embroider stories; colour; glamour; sugarcoat; whitewash; sugar; broider; broider on, one's stories; stick it on; sugar cover; to broider on, one's stories; punch up (punch (something) up or punch up (something) US, informal: to make (something) more lively, exciting, attractive, etc. • New owners punched up the newspaper with color photographs. The steak was punched up with a pepper sauce. vogeler); gem (jagr6880)

Игорь Миг

oversell; paint a rosy picture of

amer.

slick; spruce up (Taras); zhuzh (Taras)

dipl.

cosmetisize (bigmaxus)

fig.

feague (см. обсценный Vadim Rouminsky); furbish (сведения, факты и т. п. Vadim Rouminsky)

Gruzovik, fig.

veneer (impf of приукрасить)

Gruzovik, inf.

decorate (impf of приукрасить); brighten up (impf of приукрасить)

idiom.

turn geese into swans (Yerkwantai)

inf.

paint; airbrush (Халеев); sex something up (Andrey Truhachev); brighten up; decorate; veneer; sex up (Gilbert); sugarcoat (реальность • to sugar-coat the real facts – лакировать действительность Taras); embellish (a story, an account, etc.)

inf., amer.

needle (рассказ)

Makarov.

sugar-coat; embroider on stories; art up; colour up; glamour up; smooth away; smooth down; smooth out; smooth over; sugar-cover

Makarov., inf.

smarten up

Makarov., inf., amer.

do grace to; fabulize