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paint the lily

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adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)

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Cognitive

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Variants

synonym
gild the lily
pasttense
painted the lily
presentparticiple
painting the lily
thirdpersonsingular
paints the lily
pastparticiple
painted the lily

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
§2
adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)

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