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bleph

/blɛf/

bleph is the clipping of blepharoplasty.

Meaning of blepharoplasty

Noun

blepharoplasty (plural blepharoplasties)

  1. Plastic surgery on the eyelids to improve vision or for cosmetic reasons.
    • This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5
    Synonyms:
    bleph

Forms of bleph

pluralblephs

Words that rhyme with bleph

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Questions about bleph

What is bleph the clipping of?
Bleph is the clipping of blepharoplasty.
How do you pronounce bleph?
Bleph is pronounced /blɛf/.

Words near bleph in the dictionary

  1. bleomycin
  2. bleomycine
  3. bleomycines
  4. bleomycins
  5. blep
  6. bleph
  7. blephara
  8. blepharadenitis
  9. blepharal
  10. blepharectomies
  11. blepharectomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleph (page history and authors); blepharoplasty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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