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# embroider

«embroider» in Mova's school dictionary: **to sew patterns or pictures onto cloth with coloured thread** — 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 (embroider, embroiders, embroidered, embroidering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To embroider means to sew patterns or pictures onto cloth with coloured thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#m1)

2) To embroider a story means to add made-up details to make it more exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#m2)

3) To embroider can also mean to cover something so thickly with things that it looks decorated, like a carriage crowded with people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In crafts and art lessons pupils embroider simple designs. In stories, someone who embroiders the truth adds untrue parts. Phrases: «embroider a name», «embroider the truth».

### examples

- Gran embroidered my name on my bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x1)
- We embroidered flowers on a cushion in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x2)
- The shirt has a dragon embroidered on the back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x3)
- He embroidered the story to make it funnier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x4)
- It takes 30 stitches to embroider one petal; how many for 5 petals? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x5)
- Don't embroider the facts — just say what happened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x6)
- Carriages and omnibuses are crowded, stuffed and embroidered with people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embroider/#x7)

### note

Noun: embroidery (the craft or the work). Regular verb. Spelling: em-broid-er.

### In the corpora

- [To "embroider" a story means to add invented details to it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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