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Verb paint the lily has 2 senses
- gild the lily, paint the lily - adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
--1 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
Sample sentence:
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- gild the lily, paint the lily - make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
--2 is one way to add
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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