blazon | Definition of blazon

Synonyms and Antonyms of blazon

1 to make known openly or publicly

their very public canoodling has pretty much blazoned the fact that they are having an affair

Synonyms of blazon

advertise, announce, annunciate, blare, blaze, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet

Words Related to blazon

bark, call (off or out), cry

bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]

knell, ring, toll

blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff

disseminate, spread

disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show

advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify

communicate, impart, intimate

Phrases Synonymous with blazon

beat the drum (for or about), run with

Near Antonyms of blazon

conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold

recall, recant, retract, revoke

2 to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

the city's waterfront has been blazoned with banners celebrating the festival of tall ships

Synonyms of blazon

adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, caparison, deck, decorate, do, do up, doll up, drape, dress, embellish, emblaze, emboss, enrich, fancify, fancy up, festoon, garnish, glitz (up), grace, gussy up, ornament, pretty (up), trim

Words Related to blazon

accessorize, dress up, trap, trick (out)

brighten, freshen, smarten, spruce (up)

braid, embroider, feather, figure, filigree, fillet, flounce, frill, fringe, furbelow, garland, hang, lace, ribbon, swag, wreathe

appliqué, gild, paint

diamond, gem, impearl, jewel, pearl

redecorate, redo

Near Antonyms of blazon

simplify, streamline

bare, denude, dismantle, display, divest, expose, reveal, strip, uncover

Antonyms of blazon

blemish, deface, disfigure, mar, scar, spoil