The Collaborative International Dictionary
face lift \face lift\ n.
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an operation to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from a person's face.
Syn: face lifting, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty.
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a renovation that improves the outward appearance, as of a building.
Syn: face lifting.
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck]
a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) [syn: facelift, face lifting]
Usage examples of "face lift".
All the recent reconstruction amounted to nothing more than an economic face lift, cosmetic surgery on a continental scale, designed primarily to keep a steady stream of foreign currency pouring into numbered accounts and national treasuries.
One or two houses had had a complete face lift and showed signs of claiming to be new and proud of it.
She caught her breath in wonder A child, a son -- but then she saw her own face lift, and recoiled from the sight of the fierce, angry green eyes.
I watched Ashers face lift up, meet our eyes, and in the middle of what Belle thought was the most sensuous of nights, the seed was sown that we must escape.
Tobias watched the white lace right in front of his face lift and fall with the heat of her indignation.