beautify

verb

1 he can grow flowers to beautify the yard:

adorn, embellish, enhance, decorate, ornament, garnish, gild, smarten, prettify, enrich, glamorize, spruce up, deck (out), trick out, grace;

informal get up, do up, do out, tart up.

▷antonyms spoil, uglify.

2 she started to beautify herself:

prettify, glamorize, prink, primp, preen;

apply makeup/cosmetics;

informal do/doll oneself up.