facelift
IPA: fˈeɪsɫɪft
noun
- Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.
- (by extension) Any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something.
verb
- To perform a facelift upon.
face-lift
IPA: fˈeɪsɫˈɪft
noun
- Alternative form of facelift [Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.]
face lift
IPA: fˈeɪsɫˈɪft
noun
- Alternative form of facelift [Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.]
Examples of "facelift" in Sentences
Examples of "face-lift" in Sentences
- Minus the botox or the face-lift, that is, after all, what 50-something women are like.
- If adding nouns were akin to a face-lift, adopting grammatical elements as basic as pronouns would be closer to a heart transplant.
- If, having gone from a face-lift to heart surgery, we were now to advance to a brain transplant, to what extent would we still be involved with the same patient?
- For those who had no taste for casual clothing, global elixirs of the American lifestyle were to be found in jogging, fitness, and the putatively rejuvenating face-lift.
- (The Maestra-Chef, Pilar Cabrera, also runs the very good restaurant, "La Olla", where Oaxacan traditional cuisine is given a face-lift and presented in a new, lighter manner.)