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English translation: enhance

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German term or phrase:	bespoilern
English translation:	enhance
Entered by:	Astrid Elke Johnson

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23:16 Aug 12, 2009

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Art/Literary - Music / music

German term or phrase: bespoilern

R bespoilert Lennons/McCartneys "Norwegian Wood" mit indischen Fragmenten.
It would appear to be a positive statement.

stephkg KudoZ activity Questions: 1050 (2 open) (51 closed without grading) Answers: 3 United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15

enhances

Explanation:
Just another choice...

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Kphred
Local time: 10:15

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

blings up

Textklick

3 +1

enhances

Kphred

fancify

113160

pimps up

Tom Tyson

Answers

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

blings up

Explanation:
Yuk!

'Bespoilern' is obviously slang.

But if 'R' means Ravi Shankar (who apparently provided inspiration for the sitar part on the original recording [URL]) then I would possible say decorates/contributes/adds to or - if we must - 'tarts up'.

Readership?

Reference: http://www.sitars.net/

Textklick
Local time: 17:15
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

28 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

enhances

Explanation:
Just another choice...

Kphred
Local time: 10:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Actually, I went for 'embellishes' at the end of the day, but thanks to Kphred and Dr Lofthouse

6 hrs confidence:

pimps up

Explanation:
If you want to keep the car customising theme, this is what you do to your 'ride', eg:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070730224708AA...

Bernhard has already mentioned 'embellish', which wouldn't be bad if you didn't want to keep the slang element.

Tom Tyson
Local time: 17:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 hr confidence:

fancify

Explanation:
like the spoiler fancifies my car

or:
embellish
prettify

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/FANCIFY
Verb: fancify

1. Make more beautiful
- beautify, embellish, prettify

Derived forms: fancifying, fancifies, fancified

Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate

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Note added at 7 days (2009-08-20 19:31:46 GMT) Post-grading
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you went for embellish? mmh

113160
United States
Local time: 12:15
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 26

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Changes made by editors

Aug 23, 2009 - Changes made by Astrid Elke Johnson:
Edited KOG entry	Kphred's old entry - "bespoilern" => "enhances"
Aug 20, 2009 - Changes made by Kphred:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term
Aug 16, 2009 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Field	Other => Art/Literary
Field (specific)	General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters => Music

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