To furnish with decorations.
We decorated the Christmas tree with tinsel and baubles.
To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
There's some paint left over from when we decorated the guest bedroom.
To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
He was a decorated soldier who served in three wars.
decorated, adorned
From Middle English decorat (“adorned”), from Latin decorātus, perfect passive participle of decorō (“to adorn, distinguish, honor”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from decus (“ornament, grace, dig...
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