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Definition of Facelift

1. Noun. 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. "Some actresses have more than one face lift"

2. Noun. A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes. "More than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction"

Definition of Facelift

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

2. Noun. By extension, any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something. ¹

3. Verb. To perform a facelift upon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Facelift

1. to perform plastic surgery on the face [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Facelift

1. A surgical procedure designed to reduce the visible signs of aging in the face. Commonly referred to as a facelift. Recovery is typically 2-3 weeks duration. Synonym: rhytidectomy. (21 Jun 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facelift

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faceism faceless facelessly facelessness facelessnesses facelift (current term) facelifted facelifting facelifts facelike

facemail faceman facemask facemasks facemen faceoff faceoff spot faceoff spots faceoffs facepaint

Literary usage of Facelift

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Milan & the Italian Lakes by Dan Colwell (1999)
"La Scala, one of the world's greatest opera houses, is now getting a facelift. horses, but also World War II bombing. More damaging, however, was Leonardo's ..."

2. Ring Around the Rosie . . . ! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"facelift In 1947, the Bureau of Human Heredity moved from London to Copenhagen. The new Danish building for this was built with Rockefeller money. ..."

3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1810)
"A {evr facelift may occasionally be found among his successors, but such a perpetual flow, such a command of temper in ridicule, have never been giyen to ..."

4. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The authors consider that this new examination constitute a method to evaluate the risks of skin necrosis after facelift and abdominoplasty and, ..."

5. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1874)
"I have enlivened former Lives of Chancellors and Chief Justices by their facelift—but I know nothing of this sort, either by books or tradition, ..."

6. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"Store Bay Beach has had a facelift and there are now more than a dozen small attractive shops offering island crafts, from sandals to beach wraps. ..."

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