| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| embedded | (adjective) inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass | - |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embezzled | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: misappropriated |
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| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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