facelift

plural facelifts · alternative face-lift · alternative face lift

1. Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.

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   You thought face-lifts were over? Killed off by a combination of Botox, and fear of winding up looking somewhat bride-of-Wildenstein? No! On the contrary, the face-lift is enjoying a renaissance, following the introduction of newer and newer techniques involving smaller scars and shorter recuperation periods.

   2007 October 6, Polly Vernon, “The facelift king of America”, in The Observer

2. broadlyAny activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something.

   Near-synonym: makeover

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   The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration.

   Early in September the “gift box” that has hidden Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue entrance since March is due to come off, revealing the results of a six-month facelift.

   1984 July 22, Shawn G. Kennedy, “Bergdorf's Facelift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Using the right sites, you can give Google a face-lift, promote your products or bloviate about your blog, publish a novel, write a business plan, scan your PC for spies, and get free tech help.

   2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, page 74

   But, after years of legal-wrangling and architectural debate, the modernist Les Halles complex in central Paris is finally on course for a facelift.

   2007 July 3, Angelique Chrisafis, “Designers prepare Les Halles for a facelift”, in The Guardian

present singular third person facelifts · participle present facelifting · participle past facelifted · past facelifted · alternative face-lift · alternative face lift

1. To perform a facelift upon.

   With Four Years' Soot Swept Up, Face-Lifted Brooklyn Bridge Is Ready for Public [subheading]

   1954 May 3, Meyer Berger, “About New York”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   It's a mere block from the junction of the Boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail, still one of the liveliest spots in town with its legendary cafe-restaurants, Le Select, Le Dome and La Coupole, the latter recently facelifted from its old seediness.

   1990 July 8, Julian More, “The Second Cemetery of Paris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN