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| génér. |
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 |
| amér. |
slick; spruce up (Taras); zhuzh (Taras) |
| argot. |
sugar-coat sugarcoat; put balls on something |
| dipl. |
cosmetisize (bigmaxus) |
| figur. |
feague (см. обсценный Vadim Rouminsky); furbish (сведения, факты и т. п. Vadim Rouminsky) |
| Gruzovik, figur. |
veneer (impf of приукрасить) |
| Gruzovik, inform. |
decorate (impf of приукрасить); brighten up (impf of приукрасить) |
| idiom. |
turn geese into swans (Yerkwantai) |
| inform. |
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.) |
| inform., amér. |
needle (рассказ) |
| makar. |
sugar-coat; embroider on stories; art up; colour up; glamour up; smooth away; smooth down; smooth out; smooth over; sugar-cover |
| makar., inform. |
smarten up |
| makar., inform., amér. |
slick up |
| makar., obsol. |
do grace to |
| obsol. |
do grace to; fabulize |
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| génér. |
spruce |
| Gruzovik, inform. |
adorn oneself (impf of приукраситься); improve one's looks (impf of приукраситься); become more beautiful (impf of приукраситься); become more colorful (impf of приукраситься) |
| inform. |
spruce up; brighten up; prettify; adorn; adorn oneself; become more colorful; become more colourful; decorate; embroider; improve looks; become more beautiful; veneer |
| inform., figur. |
embellish |
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| génér. |
zhuzh up (I suggested that we zhuzh this house up. PeachyHoney) |
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smarten |
