Difference between Decorate and Adorn

DECORATE vs ADORN: NOUN

Be beautiful to look at
Provide with decoration
Award a mark of honor, as a medal, to
To furnish with decorations.
To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
(transitive) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
Award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish
To confer a medal or other honor on.
To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish.
A name given by some writers to the perfected English Gothic architecture; it may be considered as having flourished from about a. d. 1300 to a. d. 1375.

To lend beauty to.
To enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments.
To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

To confer distinction upon by means of a badge or medal of honor: as, to decorate an artist with the cross of the Legion of Honor.
To deck with something becoming or ornamental; adorn; beautify; embellish: as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice.
To distinguish; grace; honor.

Of kings or emperors
Furnish with power or authority
To display the beauty or excellence of: as, to “adorn the doctrine of God,” Tit. ii. 10.
To beautify or decorate; increase or lend beauty or attractiveness to, as by dress or ornaments; hence, in general, to render pleasing, or more pleasing or attractive; embellish.
Adorned; decorated.

Bedight, Trim, Admire, Gild, Paint, Decorative, Redecorate, Bedeck, Deck, Grace, Dress, Embellish, Ornament, Beautify, Adorn

Emblazon, Purfle, Refine, Redecorate, Bejewel, Festoon, Bedeck, Deck, Invest, Grace, Clothe, Ornament, Embellish, Beautify, Decorate

Festoon, Trim, Admire, Gild, Paint, Decorative, Redecorate, Bedeck, Deck, Grace, Dress, Embellish, Ornament, Beautify, Adorn

Flaunt, Emblazon, Refine, Redecorate, Bejewel, Festoon, Bedeck, Deck, Invest, Grace, Clothe, Ornament, Embellish, Beautify, Decorate

You can decorate the door, fireplace, fir tree.
Decorate apple with peanut butter as you wish.
Aquafaba icing can used to decorate the cookies.
Please do not decorate the envelope with stickers.
Why not decorate this rocket with tin foil?
They are intended only to decorate the park.
Decorate your tree and enjoy the holiday season.
Decorate it with balloons, one for each student.
This is another cool item to decorate your room with; this pompom garland is one of the best ways to decorate your room.
Decorate your own dessert with this cookie kit loaded with everything you need to decorate a pumpkin cookie.

German hand blown glass eyes adorn her dolls.
Turned columns and brass hardware adorn this beauty.
Anne and Mary adorn the front of St.
BY WENDY GOODMAN Buttons adorn everything this season.
Fine antique furnishings adorn this traditionally elegant home.
Numerous journals and magazines also adorn the shelves.
Adorn yourselves with the raiment of goodly deeds.
Embellishments formed into snowflakes adorn this shift dress.
Custom painted graphics adorn many American pleasure boats.
He tells us in His Word what not to adorn ourselves with, but He also tells us what to adorn ourselves with.