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 →

2) To embroider a story means to add made-up details to make it more exciting. tree →

3) To embroider can also mean to cover something so thickly with things that it looks decorated, like a carriage crowded with people. tree →

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 →
• We embroidered flowers on a cushion in class. tree →
• The shirt has a dragon embroidered on the back. tree →
• He embroidered the story to make it funnier. tree →
• It takes 30 stitches to embroider one petal; how many for 5 petals? tree →
• Don't embroider the facts — just say what happened. tree →
• Carriages and omnibuses are crowded, stuffed and embroidered with people. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «embroider» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.