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Beautified

[byoo-tuh-fahy] Origin

beau·ti·fy

[byoo-tuh-fahy]
verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -fied, -fy·ing.
to make or become beautiful.

Origin:
1520–30; beauty + -fy

beau·ti·fi·ca·tion [byoo-tuh-fi-key-shuhn] , noun
beau·ti·fi·er, noun
un·beau·ti·fied, adjective

beatify, beautify.


adorn, embellish, enhance; bedeck, array.

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Word Origin & History

beautify
1520s, "to make beautiful," from beauty + L. -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Intransitive sense, "to become beautiful," is recorded from 1590s.
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