Beautifier
to make or become beautiful.
Historical Examples
Hate never was, and never will be, a beautifier of the face.
The Hero of Garside School J. Harwood Panting
Time has been described as a beautifier and as a consoler; but it is also a teacher.
Character Samuel Smiles
He saw that it was beautiful, now absolutely beautiful, and he knew love to be the beautifier.
Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery Theodore Goodridge Roberts
Cold cream may be a future beautifier but certainly not a present one.
A House Party with the Tucker Twins Nell Speed
Poverty, then, is the builder and beautifier of all huts and cottages.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) John Wilson
And, because it is laden with soot, the air of Chicago is a great mystifier and beautifier.
Your United States Arnold Bennett
And this is because love the beautifier went with her all the way!
April’s Lady Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Don’t you remember that you said a decorator meant a beautifier, and Fred said it meant a scene-painter?
Gritli’s Children Johanna Spyri
For this reason, perhaps, was the leek accounted not only as salubrious, but as a beautifier.
The Funny Side of Physic A. D. Crabtre
He seemed actually less good-looking than she remembered; for anguish is no beautifier.
Far to Seek Maud Diver
verb -fies, -fying, -fied
to make or become beautiful
v.
mid-15c., “to make beautiful,” from beauty + -fy. Intransitive sense, “to become beautiful,” is recorded from 1590s. Related: Beautified; beautifying.
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