face lifting
IPA: fˈeɪsɫˈɪftɪŋ
noun
- a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building)
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
face-lifting
IPA: fˈeɪsɫˈɪftɪŋ
Root Word: face-lift
noun
- Alternative form of facelift [Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.]
Examples of "face-lifting" in Sentences
- Voilà - a perfectly smooth, face-lifting ponytail.'
- There are certain things there is no face-lifting to it.
- Ulthera - a noninvasive face-lifting treatment - with patients in the West Midlands.
- She'd found out, somewhere, that Conn had been the originator of the municipal face-lifting project.
- All ended well in the ABAP organizational face-lifting with everybody promising to give his share for the improvement of the amateurs.
- And there are definite dollars to be made by locating run-down properties in improving neighborhoods, doing minor cosmetic face-lifting, and either selling or trading up to larger properties.
- For instance, the bourgeois press holds forth about the "moderation" of Buthelezi, an influential chief, whom it sees as a potential supporter of plans for giving the country a liberal face-lifting.
- Starting foremost with a grand reopening this Friday, which marks the end of a drastic six-month, $2.5 million face-lifting and identity-altering makeover of what locals stubbornly still call “The West End.”