Garnish vs. Embellish

Garnish and Embellish Definitions
Garnish
To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish
A coat that was garnished with a fur collar.
Embellish
To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.
Garnish
To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items
Garnished the potatoes with parsley.
Embellish
To add ornamental or fictitious details to
A fanciful account that embellishes the true story.
Garnish
To seize (property such as wages) by garnishment.
Embellish
To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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Garnish
To serve (someone) with papers announcing the garnishment of that person's property in order to satisfy a debt.
Embellish
(by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
Garnish
An ornamentation or embellishment, especially one added to a prepared food or drink for decoration or added flavor.
Embellish
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
To embellish a story, the truth
Garnish
To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
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.
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Garnish
(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
A dish garnished with parsley
Embellish
Add details to
Garnish
(archaic) To furnish; to supply.
Embellish
Be beautiful to look at;
Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
Garnish
To fit with fetters; to fetter.
Embellish
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
Decorate the room for the party
Beautify yourself for the special day
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Garnish
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
Embellish
Make more beautiful
Garnish
(legal) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
Garnish
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Garnish
Pewter vessels in general.
Garnish
Something added for embellishment.
Garnish
Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
Garnish
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
Garnish
Fetters.
Garnish
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
Garnish
Cash.
Garnish
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
All within with flowers was garnished.
Garnish
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
Garnish
To furnish; to supply.
Garnish
To fit with fetters.
Garnish
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
So are you, sweet,Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
Matter and figure they produce;For garnish this, and that for use.
Garnish
Fetters.
Garnish
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
Garnish
Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
Garnish
Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
Garnish
Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support;
His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt
Garnish
Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods