NOUN | act | facelift, face lift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face |
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act | facelift, face lift, face lifting | a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes |
Sounds | fey'slih.ft | |
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Rhymes | adrift ... uplift: 18 rhymes with ihft... |
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, lift, face lifting, 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 |
Meaning | A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes. | |
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Examples |
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Synonyms | face lift, face lifting | |
Broader | renovation, redevelopment, overhaul | The act of improving by renewing and restoring |
Spanish | modernización, reforma, renovación |
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