The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - embellish v.

1) beautify, improve, titivate or tittivate, dress (up) , trick out or up, enhance, elaborate, enrich, embroider, gild, furbish (up) , garnish, decorate, adorn, ornament, deck, bedeck, trim, elaborate, caparison, rubricate, varnish; gild refined gold, paint the lily, Misquote gild the lily: The saddles are embellished with silver studs. 2) elaborate, exaggerate, overdo, embroider, enhance, dress up: His reports are so embellished that you cannot separate fact from fiction.