dress ship vs beautify

dress ship and beautify both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dress ship	No	No	Yes	No
beautify	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, beautify is a hypernym of dress ship; that is, beautify is a word with a broader meaning than dress ship:

Other hypernyms of dress ship include adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament.

dress ship (verb)	beautify (verb)
decorate a ship with flags	make more beautiful
	make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
	be beautiful to look at