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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To ornament with needlework: embroider a pillow cover.
  2. v. To make by means of needlework: embroider a design on a bedspread.
  3. v. To add embellishments or fanciful details to: embroider the truth.
  4. v. To make needlework.
  5. v. To add embellishments or fanciful details.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To decorate with ornamental needlework. See embroidery.
  2. To work with the needle upon a ground; produce or form in needlework, as a flower, a cipher, etc.: as, to embroider silver stars on velvet.
  3. Figuratively, to embellish; decorate with verbal or literary ornament; hence, to falsify or exaggerate: as, the story has been considerably embroidered.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
  2. v. figuratively To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To ornament with needlework.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. decorate with needlework
  2. v. add details to

Etymologies

  1. Middle English embroudren, frequentative of embrouden, from Anglo-Norman embrouder, intensive of brosder, brouder (compare Guernésiais broudaïr), from Old Dutch *brosdōn, blend of *bursta ‘bristle’ and *brordōn ‘to stitch’ (compare Old High German brortōn). More at bristle and brad. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English embrouderen, partly from embrouden (from brouden, broiden, braided, embroidered, from Old English brogden, past participle of bregdan, to weave; see braid) and partly from Old French embroder (en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + broder, brosder, to embroider of Germanic origin). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. ornament
  1. works
  1. branch
  1. lace
  1. tambour
  1. couch

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  1. gold-and-silver
  2. lemon-coloured
  3. bloggers/
  1. sewn-on
  2. too-tight
  3. soft-soled
  1. rubber band
  2. kidskin
  3. lace-edged
  1. snake-skin
  2. half-worn
  3. sheepskin
  1. calfskin
  2. tops'l
  3. fleece-lined
  1. lamb's-wool
  2. ropelike
  3. turned-down

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. broud
  2. purl
  3. embroder
  4. embroid
  1. imbroder
  2. imbroider
  3. imbrother
  4. embroider
  1. embroude
  2. cross-stitch
  3. ergastinæ
  4. tambour
  1. tapis
  2. broider
  3. bework
  4. frieze
  1. herringbone
  2. mythomania
  3. hemstitch
  4. branch
  1. couch
  2. purfle
  3. work
  4. lay

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