MEANING
1. To decorate fabric with stitched patterns or pictures.
2. To embellish an account with invented or exaggerated details.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- embroider a cloth
- embroider with silk
On the page
She embroidered the border while the others rehearsed their account.
The cuffs had been embroidered with a symbol he recognized from the letter.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- embroider
- Past tense
- embroidered
- Past participle
- embroidered
- Present participle
- embroidering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- embroider
- Present continuous
- am/is/are embroidering
- Present perfect
- have/has embroidered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been embroidering
- Past
- embroidered
- Past continuous
- was/were embroidering
- Past perfect
- had embroidered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been embroidering
- Future
- will embroider
- Future continuous
- will be embroidering
- Future perfect
- will have embroidered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been embroidering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: embroider; embroiders; embroidered; embroidered; embroidering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: embroiders.
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