Meanings
plural makeup removers · alternative make-up remover · alternative rare makeup-remover
- countableuncountableA product used to remove makeup, typically a solvent.
To cleanse your face at night, use cold cream (I like it better than liquid makeup removers).
1980, Lois Wyse, Blonde, Beautiful Blonde: How to Look, Live, Work, and Think Blonde, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 721 more example
The medicine cabinet here has a bottle of contact lens solution, nasal spray, a light blue bottle of makeup remover, a container of Vaseline.
2014, Carla Buckley, The Deepest Secret, Bantam Books, →ISBN
Translations
Afrikaans grimeringverwyderaar
- grimeringverwyderaarproduct for removing make-up
Dutch make-upremover
- make-upremoverproduct for removing make-up
French démaquillant
- démaquillantproduct for removing make-up
German Make-up-Entferner
- Make-up-Entfernerproduct for removing make-up
Hungarian sminklemosó
- sminklemosóproduct for removing make-up
Norwegian Bokmål sminkefjerner
- sminkefjernerproduct for removing make-up
Polish płyn do demakijażu, abszminka
- płyn do demakijażuproduct for removing make-up
- abszminkaproduct for removing make-up
Portuguese demaquilante
- demaquilanteproduct for removing make-up
Cite this entry
makeup remover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/makeup%20remover
“makeup remover.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/makeup%20remover. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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