Garnish vs. Embellish: What's the Difference?

To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish

To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.

To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items

To add ornamental or fictitious details to

To seize (property such as wages) by garnishment.

To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.

To serve (someone) with papers announcing the garnishment of that person's property in order to satisfy a debt.

(by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.

An ornamentation or embellishment, especially one added to a prepared food or drink for decoration or added flavor.

To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.

Add details to

(archaic) To furnish; to supply.

Be beautiful to look at;

To fit with fetters; to fetter.

Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;

(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.

Make more beautiful

(legal) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.

A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

Pewter vessels in general.

Something added for embellishment.

Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.

Fetters.

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.

Cash.

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

To furnish; to supply.

To fit with fetters.

Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

Fetters.

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration

Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment

Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support;

Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods