face_lifting has definitions from the fields of medicine,surgery
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[ noun ] a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building)

Synonyms

facelift face_lift

Used in print

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920 s , the dislocations of the Depression , the common ethos of Materialism everywhere , all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike_Fink and the Great_Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little_People .

Related terms

renovation

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[ noun ] (medicine,surgery) 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

Examples

"some actresses have more than one face lift"

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