bedight 'decorate' trim 'decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods' blazon 'decorate with heraldic arms' garnish 'decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods' fill up 'fill or stop up' flood 'supply with an excess of' pad 'add padding to' inlay 'decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal' clutter up 'fill a space in a disorderly way' secure 'fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug' emblazon 'decorate with colors' incrust 'decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)' panel 'decorate with panels' douse 'dip into a liquid' stop up 'fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug' deck 'decorate' color 'decorate with colors' impregnate 'infuse or fill completely' emblazon 'decorate with heraldic arms' oversupply 'supply with an excess of' fill 'plug with a substance' perfuse 'cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across' festoon 'decorate with strings of flowers' saturate 'infuse or fill completely' fill out 'line or stuff with soft material' fill again 'fill something that had previously been emptied' garland 'adorn with bands of flowers or leaves' encrust 'decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)' duck 'dip into a liquid' clutter 'fill a space in a disorderly way' bedeck 'decorate' overlay 'put something on top of something else' dip 'dip into a liquid' smother 'envelop completely' surround 'envelop completely' cover 'put something on top of something else' trim 'decorate, as with ornaments' glut 'supply with an excess of' pad 'line or stuff with soft material' bolster 'add padding to' close 'fill or stop up' beset 'decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)' dress 'decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods' suffuse 'cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across' bathe 'suffuse with or as if with light' colour 'decorate with colors' replenish 'fill something that had previously been emptied' line 'fill plentifully' refill 'fill something that had previously been emptied' plug 'fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug'
inundate decorate ?ripple anoint ring encircle sauce marinate cover bind trim season block choke vein veil impregnate intersperse swathe flood clog honeycomb imbue spot replenish bathe suffuse dapple drench bestrew dot smother plate soil smut shroud deluge bandage interweave ornament pave saturate interleave lard panel close surround dirty garland litter staff adorn infest face embellish robe gum up infect redecorate blot stud deck splotch entangle blacktop garnish interlace encrust festoon dam pad edge blockade tile enrich clutter tinge inlay douse fill tool coat soak carpet lash plug interlard frame speckle endow line fleck mottle bombard riddle stain stop up contaminate mask ?carpet dope emblazon taint swaddle stipple blanket inject
douse 'COD: drench with liquid' drape 'FN: to (partially or completely) cover something by placing an object or objects over the surface' crowd 'FN: fill (a space) almost completely ' coat 'COD: provide with or form a layer or covering' plaster 'COD: coat or cover all over with something, especially to an extent considered excessive' pave 'COD: cover (a piece of ground) with flat stones or bricks' seed 'COD: sow (land) with seeds' pile 'FN: stack or load with' wallpaper 'COD: apply wallpaper to (a wall or room)' tile 'COD: cover with tiles' load 'FN: fill a container-like entity with something, often in abundance' butter 'COD: spread with butter' varnish 'FN: cover with a substance consisting of resin dissolved in a liquid, applied to wood to give a hard, clear, shiny surface when dry. ' splash 'FN: cover or scatter with drops (of liquid)' embellish 'COD: adorn; decorate. ' spread 'FN: cover (a surface) with a substance by applying in an even layer' pump 'COD: fill (something) with (liquid, gas, etc.)' cram 'COD: fill to the point of overflowing' plant 'FN: fill an area with (seeds or plants)' wrap 'COD: place around so as to encircle.' smear 'COD: coat or mark with a greasy or sticky substance.' brush 'FN: apply a substance to (a surface) lightly or with a brush' stuff 'COD: fill tightly with something' cover 'COD: put something on top of or in front of (something) in order to protect or conceal it' shower 'FN: spray with drops of liquid or particles' hang 'FN: cover or adorn (a place or surface) with hanging objects' adorn 'FN: cover with decoration' squirt 'COD: wet with a jet of liquid' surface 'COD: provide (something, especially a road) with a particular surface' fill 'FN: make full' spray 'COD: cover or treat with a spray' splatter 'COD: splash with a sticky or viscous liquid' daub 'COD: coat or smear with a thick substance carelessly or liberally' strew 'COD: cover (a surface or area) with untidily scattered things' pack 'COD: fill; cram a large number of things into' dab 'FN: apply a substance to, in small or light strokes ' panel 'COD: cover (a wall or other surface) with panels. ' paint 'FN: apply a substance which is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating. ' suffuse 'COD: gradually spread through or over' glaze 'COD: cover with a glaze. ' spatter 'COD: cover with drops or spots' gild 'COD: cover thinly with gold.' flood 'COD: fill or suffuse completely' inject 'COD: introduce (a new or different element) into something' anoint 'FN: to smear or rub with an oily substance' sow 'COD: plant (an area) with seed' dust 'COD: cover lightly with a powdered substance.' asphalt 'COD: surface with asphalt' scatter 'FN: cover with (objects, substance) in a distributed or random way' sprinkle 'COD: scatter or pour small drops or particles over' heap 'COD: load copiously with'
They garlanded the statue stop up the leak The room was bathed in sunlight plug the hole Can you close the cracks with caulking? trim the christmas tree panel the walls with wood The public buildings were festooned for the holiday line one's pockets flood the market with tennis shoes Impregnate the cloth with alcohol smother the meat in gravy Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient refill my glass, please trim a shop window pad a bra cover the meat with a lot of gravy deck the halls with holly color the walls with paint in warm tones He dipped into the pool pad the seat of the chair The sky was suffused with a warm pink color fill a cavity
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Leslie staffed the store. The employees staffed the store. Leslie staffed the store with employees. Leigh swaddled the baby in blankets.
Examples from SemCor
After a while, we became aware that the money was disappearing as fast as we replenished it. In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked_up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a_few pennies in its lap. Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown_Act. Mrs._Peter_Feringa_Jr., last year 's Achaeans' queen, chose an eggshell white filmy lace short dress made with a wide decolletage trimmed with an edging of tulle. It should be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots that were open last year, but so_far it has n't worked that way. The task of a congregation would be defined, according to economic integration, as the work of co-opting individuals and families of similar social and economic position to replenish the nuclear core of the congregation. It was`` Duty'' he said that his parents had given him as a rule- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense_of_humor with which he was largely supplied- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty. He replenished the dipper and handed it to his young wife riding the hurricane_deck. The population can thereby replenish itself and actually grow larger. The congregation perishes when it is no_longer possible to replenish that core from the neighborhood; moreover, residential mobility is so high in metropolitan areas that churches have_to recruit constantly in their core stratum in_order to survive; they can lose higher- and status members from the church without collapsing, but they need adequate recruits for the core stratum in_order to preserve economic integration. According_to Whipple( 1955), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state. In Psalm 27: 1 you read those beautiful words which you must have in your heart if you are to master the fears that surround you, or to drive them out if they have you in their grip:`` The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? An agreeable ease suffused Vernon and the passengers of the tallyho, from which there issued clouds of smoke. `` Remember the night Will Rogers filled a tooth for me between numbers''? While Mr._Blatz was putting_up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr._Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar. The room was bathed in light at the instant Muller 's second shot came. Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned_off. Rounded posts give a soft, sculptured look, paneled doors have decorative burl panels or cane insets plus softening arches, table tops are inlaid in Macassar ebony or acacia. As the camp emptied, it was refilled by a draining of the camps and towns around Lublin, then by deportees from outside Poland. A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a_couple_of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high_pressure verbal fog that_is kept on_tap for such emergencies. An alternate roof, perhaps more within do-it-yourself reach, could be constructed of heavy wooden roof beams, overlaid with boards and waterproofing. Starting with the room completely blacked_out, as it was when we came_in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare. During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2` C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.