Difference between Embellish and Decorate

EMBELLISH vs DECORATE: VERB

Add details to
Be beautiful to look at
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
Make more beautiful

Award a mark of honor, as a medal, to
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
Be beautiful to look at
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
Provide with decoration

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 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.

To set off with ornamentation; make beautiful, pleasing, or attractive to the eye or the mind; adorn; decorate; deck: as, to embellish the person with rich apparel; to embellish a garden with shrubs and flowers; a style embellished by metaphors; a book embellished by engravings.
Synonyms Ornament, Decorate, etc. (see adorn). See list under decorate.

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.

Glorify, Dramatise, Blow up, Deck, Grace, Lard, Pad, Ornament, Beautify, Adorn, Aggrandize, Dramatize, Decorate, Embroider, Prettify

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

Dress, Enhance, Glorify, Blow up, Deck, Grace, Lard, Pad, Ornament, Beautify, Adorn, Aggrandize, Decorate, Embroider, Prettify

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

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.