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facelift

/ˈfeɪsˌlɪft/

facelift noun: plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.

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.
    • Early in September the “gift box” that has hidden Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue entrance since March is due to come off, revealing the results of a six-month facelift.1984 July 22, Shawn G. Kennedy, “Bergdorf's Facelift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Verb

facelift (third-person singular simple present facelifts, present participle facelifting, simple past and past participle facelifted)

  1. To perform a facelift upon.
    • With Four Years' Soot Swept Up, Face-Lifted Brooklyn Bridge Is Ready for Public [subheading]1954 May 3, Meyer Berger, “About New York”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • It's a mere block from the junction of the Boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail, still one of the liveliest spots in town with its legendary cafe-restaurants, Le Select, Le Dome and La Coupole, the latter recently facelifted from its old seediness.1990 July 8, Julian More, “The Second Cemetery of Paris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

facelift meaning in Malayalam

facelift in Malayalam

cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery
മുഖം മിനുക്കൽ, മുഖത്തെ ചുളിവുകൾ നീക്കുന്ന ശസ്ത്രശ്രിയ, മുഖം നന്നാക്കൽ, മുഖം ഭംഗിയുള്ളതാക്കൽ, സൗന്ദര്യചികിത്സ, മുഖത്തിനുള്ള സൗന്ദര്യസംവർദ്ധക ചികിത്സ
renovation, redecoration, refurbishment
പുതുക്കൽ, മുഖം നന്നാക്കൽ, മുഖം മിനുക്കൽ, ഉദ്ധാരണം, നവീകരണം, നവീകരിക്കൽ

Forms of facelift

Noun
pluralfacelifts
alternative formface-lift
alternative formface lift
Verb
third-person singular presentfacelifts
present participlefacelifting
past participlefacelifted
pastfacelifted

Plural of facelift: facelifts

Origin of facelift

From face + lift.

Words formed from facelift

Questions about facelift

What does facelift mean?
Facelift means plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.
What is facelift in Malayalam?
Facelift in Malayalam is മുഖം മിനുക്കൽ, മുഖത്തെ ചുളിവുകൾ നീക്കുന്ന ശസ്ത്രശ്രിയ, മുഖം നന്നാക്കൽ. See Facelift meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is facelift?
Facelift can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce facelift?
Facelift is pronounced /ˈfeɪsˌlɪft/.
What is the plural of facelift?
The plural of facelift is facelifts.

Words near facelift in the dictionary

  1. facelets
  2. facelick
  3. facelicked
  4. facelicking
  5. facelicks
  6. facelift
  7. facelifted
  8. facelifting
  9. facelifts
  10. facelike
  11. facelinid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: facelift (page history and authors); facelift (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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