decorate

verb

1 the door was decorated with a lion's head knocker:

ornament, adorn, trim, embellish, garnish, furnish, accessorize, enhance, grace, enrich;

festoon, garland, trick out, bedeck, beautify, prettify;

literary furbelow.

2 a house painter called to decorate his home:

paint, wallpaper, paper, furbish, smarten up;

renovate, refurbish, redecorate, retouch;

informal do up, spruce up, do out, do over, fix up, tart up, give something a facelift, titivate.

3 he was decorated for courage on the battlefields:

give a medal to, pin a medal on, honor, confer an award on;

cite, mention in dispatches, reward.