| NOUN | act | face lifting, face lift, facelift | a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes |
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| act | face lifting, face lift, facelift, lift, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face |
| Meaning | A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes. | |
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| Synonyms | face lift, facelift | |
| Broader | renovation, redevelopment, overhaul | The act of improving by renewing and restoring |
| Spanish | modernización, reforma, renovación | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | face lift, facelift, lift, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck | |
| Narrower | nose job, rhinoplasty | cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose |
| Broader | plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
| Spanish | cirugía estética, lifting facial, ritidectomía, ritidoplastia | |
| Catalan | cirurgia estètica, cirurgia plàstica, lifting facial, ritidectomia, ritidectomía, ritidoplastia, ritidoplàstia | |
| Verbs | face-lift | perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face |
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