verb

embroider

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verb

To decorate fabric with a needle and coloured thread in a pattern or design.

"She embroidered her initials onto the pillowcase."

"The tailor embroidered gold thread along the jacket's collar."

To add extra, often exaggerated or invented, details to a story to make it more interesting.

"He tends to embroider his fishing stories a little."

How to Use Embroider

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishTo stitch decorative patterns onto cloth, or to exaggerate a story with extra invented details.

Common pairings

embroider a design embroider the truth embroider a story

embroidered past tense, embroiders singular

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She _____ her initials onto the pillowcase.

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