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- verb Present participle of
beautify . - noun The action of the verb to
beautify ;beautification .
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Examples
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Eaten alive | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health: Exfoliation is a key part of any skin beautifying treatment.
Archive 2007-04-08 Bill Crider 2007
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Without speaking disparagingly of the city of Ottawa, we all know that the government of our country have expended a considerable amount of money in beautifying the city, the driveway and other things having been constructed by reason of it being the Capital of our noble Dominion.
Good Citizenship 1928
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They love Malacca, and take a pride in beautifying it.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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They are at great expense in beautifying and adorning them: They lay them over with gold and silver; because these are things people love and dote upon wherever they meet with them, they dress up their idols in them, the more effectually to court the adoration of the children of this world.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Do we call beautifying or renovating buildings a form of development?
Brudirect News1 2009
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而西方媒体往往会自己另外编一个故事,让这个故事更符合自己的价值观。 ry1801: My feeling is that Chinese media like to speak in beautifying language with a leading melody (there are some improvement but not adequate).
Global Voices in English » China: Dialogue with Anti-CNN 2009
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I think it depends on how the notion of beautifying is communicated and parents 'individual values when it comes to younger girls, make-up, nail polish, etc.
Anastasia Goodstein: Sweet & Sassy: Do Tweens Need Their Own Salons? 2008
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In The Moralists the steps of ascent are defined; from the admiration of beautiful objects we rise to the in - sight that it is art, the beautifying, which is beautiful; from the love of beautiful bodies we pass to the recog - nition that their beauty is founded not in the body qua body, but in a forming power (or inward form), in action and intelligence, i.e., in the mind.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968
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Along with the promotion and building of good highways we fell into the idea of beautifying those highways.
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I buy with the idea of beautifying my home with them, and this I cannot do so long as I yield to everybody's request for
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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