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zhuzh up (I suggested that we zhuzh this house up. PeachyHoney) |
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embellish (выдумкой рассказ и т. п.); embroider (рассказ); flatter; paint in bright colours; saccharinize; farce (пикантными подробностями); gloss; prettify; smarten; varnish; adorn; dress up (gogolesque2); gloss over (AMlingua); exaggerate (Anglophile); give positive coloring (Alex_Odeychuk); glamorise; glamorize; glamourize; aggrandize; paint in bright colors; embroider stories; colour; glamour; sugarcoat; whitewash; sugar; broider; broider on, one's stories; stick it on; sugar cover; to broider on, one's stories; punch up (punch (something) up or punch up (something) US, informal: to make (something) more lively, exciting, attractive, etc.: New owners punched up the newspaper with color photographs.
The steak was punched up with a pepper sauce. vogeler) |
| Игорь Миг |
oversell; paint a rosy picture of |
| amer. |
slick; spruce up (Taras); zhuzh (Taras) |
| dipl. |
cosmetisize (bigmaxus) |
| Gruzovik, fig. |
veneer (impf of приукрасить) |
| Gruzovik, inf. |
decorate (impf of приукрасить); brighten up (impf of приукрасить) |
| idiom. |
turn geese into swans (Yerkwantai) |
| inf. |
paint; airbrush (Халеев); sex something up (Andrey Truhachev); brighten up; decorate; veneer; sex up (Gilbert); sugarcoat (реальность: to sugar-coat the real facts – лакировать действительность Taras); embellish (a story, an account, etc.) |
| inf., amer. |
needle (рассказ) |
| Makarov. |
sugar-coat; embroider on stories; art up; colour up; glamour up; smooth away; smooth down; smooth out; smooth over; sugar-cover |
| Makarov., inf. |
smarten up |
| Makarov., inf., amer. |
slick up |
| Makarov., obs. |
do grace to |
| obs. |
do grace to; fabulize |
| slang |
sugar-coat sugarcoat; put balls on something |
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spruce |
| Gruzovik, inf. |
adorn oneself (impf of приукраситься); improve one's looks (impf of приукраситься); become more beautiful (impf of приукраситься); become more colorful (impf of приукраситься) |
| inf. |
spruce up; brighten up; prettify; adorn; adorn oneself; become more colorful; become more colourful; decorate; embroider; improve looks; become more beautiful; veneer |
| inf., fig. |
embellish |
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smarten |
