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beautifies

/ˈbju.tə.faɪz/

beautifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beautify.

Meaning of beautify

Verb

beautify (third-person singular simple present beautifies, present participle beautifying, simple past and past participle beautified)

  1. (transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
    • […] there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you:1592, Robert Greene, Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, London: William Wright, “Robertoes Tale”
  2. (intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
    • […] it must be a Prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his Creation for ever beautifying in his Eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater Degrees of Resemblance.1719, Joseph Addison, “Upon the Immortality of the Soul”, in Maxims, Observations, and Reflections, London: E. Curll, page 88
  3. (intransitive, rare) To make oneself beautiful.
    • She’d felt silly when she first put cucumbers on her eyes (to diminish puffiness), or oatmeal on her face (to cleanse the pores and absorb excess oils), or egg yolks in her hair (to make it shine). Her use of groceries had even made my mother laugh, then wonder if she should start to beautify.2002, Alice Sebold, chapter 13, in The Lovely Bones, London: Picador, page 156
  4. Synonym of pretty-print.
    Antonyms:
    minify, uglify

Questions about beautifies

What is beautifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Beautifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beautify.
How do you pronounce beautifies?
Beautifies is pronounced /ˈbju.tə.faɪz/.

Words near beautifies in the dictionary

  1. beautification
  2. beautifications
  3. beautified
  4. beautifier
  5. beautifiers
  6. beautifies
  7. beautifieth
  8. beautifool
  9. beautiful
  10. beautiful armadillo
  11. beautiful armadillos

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