vanitize

== English == === Etymology === From vanity + -ize. === Verb === vanitize (third-person singular simple present vanitizes, present participle vanitizing, simple past and past participle vanitized) (ambitransitive) To embellish for reasons of vanity. 1876, Fontnell S. Chad: A Reminiscence, J. Masters and Co., page 43, […] when I went up to administer to Carrie a small lecture on imprudence, the vain child was still at the glass, trying the effect of a pair of earrings on the background of her hair which hung loose round her shoulders […] "I told her she was a great goose," said Goda, who like a sensible being was snugly tucked up in bed; "it is a great deal too cold to vanitize." === Anagrams === nativize