Synonyms for deck
dɛkdeck

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1. deck

   To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

   At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
   His looks adorned the venerable place.
   

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

   Synonyms:
   adorn, beautify, bedeck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate, ornament

   Antonyms:
   deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

   Preposition:
   Adorn his temples with a coronet.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. decknoun

   any of various platforms built into a vessel

   Synonyms:
   deck of cards, pack of cards

2. decknoun

   street name for a packet of illegal drugs

   Synonyms:
   deck of cards, pack of cards

3. pack of cards, deck of cards, decknoun

   a pack of 52 playing cards

   Synonyms:
   deck of cards, pack of cards

4. deckverb

   a porch that resembles the deck on a ship

   Synonyms:
   deck of cards, pack of cards

5. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb

   be beautiful to look at

   "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, bedeck, ornament, adorn, dump, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, invest, blow up, aggrandize, embroider, dress, lard, coldcock, embellish, prettify, bedight, beautify, floor, knock down, pad, dramatize

6. deck, bedight, bedeckverb

   decorate

   "deck the halls with holly"

   Synonyms:
   bedeck, embellish, beautify, coldcock, floor, knock down, adorn, bedight, grace, dump, decorate

7. deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floorverb

   knock down with force

   "He decked his opponent"

   Synonyms:
   grace, bedeck, adorn, blow out of the water, dump, push down, decorate, shock, down, cut down, underprice, ball over, embellish, pull down, coldcock, ditch, bedight, beautify, floor, knock down, plunge, take aback, blast

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Beat
   • Decorate
   • Pack
   • Packet
   • Platform

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deckverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, embellish, decorate, ornament, array, beautify

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1. deckverb

   Synonyms:
   bedeck, bedizen, array

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1. List of paraphrases for "deck":

   bridge, apron, decks, pont, terrace, floor, decking, shield, cockpit, bridges, bezel, game, balcony, cover, platform, barajas, platinum, patio

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deck

   Synonyms:
   Bag; packet of drugs

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1. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn:

   I personally would like to see Speaker Boehner help clear the deck for the people who follow him and make that transition a little bit easier, i think it makes sense to do it until 2017.

2. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Peuvrelle:

   And while the entire community banded together to search for Kristin desperately, Paul and Ruben Flores did not join in, you will hear Ruben Flores would tear down missing posters of Kristin — tore down her smiling, beautiful face — called her a ‘dirty slut,’ all while her corpse was decomposing underneath his deck.

3. Todd Vance:

   Every bail of cocaine on this flight deck that doesn't make it to our shores represents lives saved in New York City, Philly, Chicago, Los Angeles, or any small town that's dealing with pandemic levels of drug overdoses this year.

4. Honeywell Vice President Ken Snodgrass:

   It takes longer on the technology bringing to aerospace because of safety. We must bring things on, earn their way onboard to bring that technology out to the flight deck in case of a situation in flight. It must be very easy, intuitive for the pilots to use.

5. Thomas Friedens:

   We squandered months.We knew this was coming fromlate January and only recentlybegan taking it seriously andnow its an all hands on deck.