embellish
C1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To make more attractive by adding detail, or to exaggerate a story.
He embellished the anecdote with details that were plainly invented.
Medicine verb
To add extra, often exaggerated, detail to an account to make it more dramatic or convincing.
The clerking doctor wondered whether the story had been embellished for the insurance claim.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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