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1. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
   "Decorate the room for the party"
   - adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
    
2. Be beautiful to look at
   "Flowers decorated the tables everywhere"
   - deck, adorn, grace, embellish, beautify
    
3. Award a mark of honour, such as a medal, to
   "He was decorated for his services in the military"
    
4. Provide with decoration
   "decorate the windows"
   - dress

Derived forms: decorates, decorated, decorating

See also: decor, decoration, decorative, decorator

Type of: alter, arrange, be, change, fete [], fête [], honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], modify, reward, set up

Encyclopedia: Decorate