Verb: embroider em'broy-du(r)
- Decorate with needlework
"She embroidered intricate patterns on the tablecloth";
- broider [archaic]
- Make appear better or greater (in power, wealth, quality, etc.) than reality
"He is free to embroider the image of his mother";
- pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], dramatize, dramatise [Brit]
Derived forms: embroidered, embroidering, embroiders
Type of: adorn, amplify, beautify, decorate, embellish, exaggerate, fancify, grace, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, magnify, ornament, overdraw, overstate
Encyclopedia: Embroider