Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - embroider
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Embroider
embroider
(embroiders, embroidering, embroidered) 1. If something such as clothing or cloth is embroidered with a design, the design is stitched into it. The collar was embroidered with very small red strawberries... Matilda was embroidering an altar cloth covered with flowers and birds... I have a pillow with my name embroidered on it. VERB: be V-ed with/in n, V n, V-ed, also V 2. If you embroider a story or account of something, or if you embroider on it, you try to make it more interesting by adding details which may be untrue. He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth... She embroidered on this theme for about ten minutes. = embellish VERB: V n, V on n
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verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: alteration of Middle English embroderen, from Anglo-French embrouder, from en- + brosder, brouder to ~, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English brord point, byrst bristle Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to ornament with needlework b. to form with needlework 2. to elaborate on ; embellish ~ a story intransitive verb 1. to make ~y 2. to provide embellishments ; elaborate • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 (also absol.) a decorate (cloth etc.) with needlework. b create (a design) in this way. 2 add interest to (a narrative) with fictitious additions. Derivatives embroiderer n. Etymology: ME f. AF enbrouder (as EN-(1), OF brouder, broisder f. Gmc) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. вышивать; украшать вышивкой the mantle was embroidered in gold —- мантия была расшита золотом meadow embroidered with flowers —- луг, усеянный цветами 2. приукрашивать, расцвечивать (рассказ); расписывать (происшествие) to embroider (on) one's stories —- привирать, приукрашивать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make a pattern of stitches on cloth with coloured cotton or silk threads (The dress was embroidered with flowers.) 2 to make a story or report of events more interesting or exciting by adding details, that you have invented; embellish (1) - embroidered adj (richly embroidered) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- late 14c., from Anglo-Norm. enbrouder, from en- "in" + broisder "embroider," from Frank. *brozdon, from P.Gmc. *bruzdajanan. Influenced by O.E. brogden, pp. of bregad "to weave" (see braid). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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