To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.