Putting up paintings, stringing up lights, and getting some flowers are all ways to decorate a house. When you decorate, you make things look better or at least more interesting.
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish;
Verb
provide with decoration; "dress the windows"
Verb
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
Verb
award a mark of honor, as a medal, to
Verb
be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
v. t.
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or
honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the
person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to
decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Decorate
Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms.
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish;
Usage Examples
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.