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face-lift

face-lift is the alternative form of facelift.

Meaning of facelift

Noun

facelift (plural facelifts)

  1. Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.
    • You thought face-lifts were over? Killed off by a combination of Botox, and fear of winding up looking somewhat bride-of-Wildenstein? No! On the contrary, the face-lift is enjoying a renaissance, following the introduction of newer and newer techniques involving smaller scars and shorter...2007 October 6, Polly Vernon, “The facelift king of America”, in The Observer
  2. (broadly) Any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something.
    • The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration.

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Forms of face-lift

pluralface-lifts

Words formed from face-lift

Questions about face-lift

What is face-lift the alternative form of?
Face-lift is the alternative form of facelift.

Words near face-lift in the dictionary

  1. face-bricks
  2. face-centered
  3. face-down
  4. face-downs
  5. face-first
  6. face-lift
  7. face-lifts
  8. face-maker
  9. face-makers
  10. face-melter
  11. face-melters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face-lift (page history and authors); facelift (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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