Other forms: beautified, beautifying, beautifies
To beautify is to make something more pleasing to look at. Beautify the town, beautify the garden, a scheme to beautify it.
It belongs to places and projects rather than to people, since beautifying a person sounds like something done to a corpse. Council beautification schemes are the commonest use and are usually about planting.
1verbbeautifyTo make something more pleasing to look at.
“They painted murals on the grey walls to beautify the old underpass.”
beautify is an improving.
Beauty plus -ify, from Latin bellus, fine or beautiful, plus facere, to make.
Latin
bellus — beautiful, fine
Old French
beaute — beauty
Middle English
beutifien
English, today
beautify
From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA