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decorate, v. 1. adorn, ornament, embellish, trim, garnish, furbish, Archaic, ouch, Archaic, dight; embroider, elaborate, festoon, rubricate; array, bedizen, deck, deck out, bedeck, Scot. dight; dress, dress up, attire, accouter, caparison, trap out; beautify, prettify, fix up, prink, Inf. spruce up, Inf. pretty up, Inf. trick up.
2. spangle, bespangle, stud, bestud, beset; emblazon, blazon, illuminate, paint, color, bedaub; gild, varnish, trick out.
3. cite, honor, do or pay honor, pin a medal on.
decoration, n. 1. adornment, ornamentation, embellishment, garnishment; embroidery, elaboration; bedizenment, enrichment, beautification, prettifica-tion; emblazonment, emblazonry, illumination.
2. ornament, frill, filigree, flourish, flounce, furbelow; tinsel, spangle; trinket, bauble, knick-knack, gim-crack, gewgaw, Archaic, ouch, Inf. doodad, Inf. fandangle; finery, frippery, folderol, fuss, Inf. foofaraw, SI. jazz, SI. flash.
3. colors, order, badge, medal, ribbon, laurel, wreath, cordon, garter, star.
decorous, adj. 1. proper, seemly, decent, becoming; tasteful, in good taste, dignified, refined, polished, elegant, genteel; polite, mannerly, well-behaved, gentlemanly, ladylike; respectful, deferential, conventional; formal, ceremonial, ceremonious, strict, staid, stilted.
2. suitable, appropriate, apt, apposite, apropos; fit, fitting, befitting, meet, Fr. comme ilfaut; just, right, in keeping, in character.
3. sedate, calm, serene, composed, unruffled; subdued, reserved, modest, demure, quiet, unobtrusive; solemn, grave, sober; settled, steady.
decorum, n. 1. etiquette, protocol, punctilio, good form, the thing to do; politeness, good manners, mannerliness, best behavior; gentility, breeding, gentlemanliness, ladylikeness, dignity, sedateness, respectability, decency.
2. propriety, properness, correctitude, correctness, conformity; suitability, suitableness, appropriateness, seemliness, becomingness, fitness, congruity.
decoy, n. 1. bait, lure, stool pigeon, magnet, loadstone; enticement, allurement, seduction, attraction; trap, gin, snare, ensnarement, pitfall; smoke screen, camouflage, cover-up, pretense; phony, fake, sham. -v. 2. lure, bait; attract, magnetize, entice, allure, seduce; entrap, ensnare,
decrease, v. 1. diminish, lessen, reduce, lower, abate, bate; contract, shrink, constrict, narrow; cut, pare, prune, truncate, crop, lop, dock, clip; condense, cut down, compress, shorten, abridge, scale down, boil down; abbreviate, curtail, cut short.
2. mitigate, alleviate, allay, assuage, Rare, lenify, palliate; quell, slake, deaden, dull, blunt, take the edge off of; modify, temper, qualify; minimize, extenuate, make light of, soft-pedal, play down, downplay.
3. subside, ebb, recede, retrocede; dwindle, Inf peter out; slacken, let up, wind down, slow down, de-escalate; fall off, taper off, wane, fade away, die out. -n. 4. diminution, reduction, lessening, diminishing, decrement, abatement, retrenchment, cutback; contraction, shrinking, shrinkage, constriction, constricting, narrowing; condensation, compression, shortening, abridgment, abbreviation, curtailment.
5. mitigation, alleviation, assuagement, palliation; quelling, relieving, easing, softening; loosening, relaxation, slackening.
6. subsidence, ebb, recession; decline, downturn, drop-off, fall-off, declension, decrescence, wane; sinking, falling off, fading away, dwindling, dying out; weakening, attenuation, loss, attrition, wearing away, erosion, wasting away; retardation, slowdown,
decree, n. 1. ordinance, edict, Law. writ, rescript, assize; dictate, dictum, order, injunction, command; fiat, sanction, prescript, mandate, firman; proclamation, pronunciamento, manifesto, ukase; ruling, verdict, judgment, Law. award, finding, sentence; rule, regulation, law, canon, enactment, Law. statute, act; warrant, authorization.
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