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face-swap

face-swap verb: to swap the face (of someone) in an image or video.

Verb

face-swap (third-person singular simple present face-swaps, present participle face-swapping, simple past and past participle face-swapped)

  1. To swap the face (of someone) in an image or video.
    • Whether he’s face-swapping with statues at Mia or knocking back whiskey with his pink-shirted digital girlfriend, Mailman immerses himself in the low-tech app to create a world that’s familiar while still being as wacky as conceivable.2017 April 19–25, “Music”, in City Pages, Minneapolis, Minn.: Star Tribune Media Company, LLC, →ISSN, page 69
    • Somebody had face-swapped her with a rotting corpse. Underneath that picture was another, in which her eyes had been replaced with lips. The thread continued with more Photoshop alterations and crude graffiti.2018, Andy Marino, Autonomous, New York, N.Y.: Freeform Books, Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 340

Forms of face-swap

third-person singular presentface-swaps
present participleface-swapping
past participleface-swapped
pastface-swapped
alternative formfaceswap

Questions about face-swap

What does face-swap mean?
Face-swap means to swap the face (of someone) in an image or video.
What part of speech is face-swap?
Face-swap is a verb.
What is the past tense of face-swap?
The past tense of face-swap is face-swapped.

Words near face-swap in the dictionary

  1. face-sitting
  2. face-stalk
  3. face-stalked
  4. face-stalking
  5. face-stalks
  6. face-swap
  7. face-swapped
  8. face-swapping
  9. face-swaps
  10. face-to-face
  11. face-to-faces

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