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# adorn

«adorn» in Mova's school dictionary: **To decorate something or make it look more beautiful** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (adorn, adorns, adorned, adorning)

### meaning for a pupil

To decorate something or make it look more beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories jewels, flowers, lights or carvings adorn a castle, a crown, a person or a room.

### examples

- «It is light that adorns me,» said the flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorn/#x1)
- Flowers adorn the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorn/#x2)
- Carvings adorn the old temple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorn/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [For the LORD taketh pleasure in His people; He adorneth the humble with salvation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2685/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adorn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.