FACELIFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does facelift mean? 

• FACELIFT (noun)
  The noun FACELIFT has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes

  Familiarity information: FACELIFT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACELIFT (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cosmetic surgery; face lift; face lifting; facelift; lift; nip and tuck; rhytidectomy; rhytidoplasty

Context example:

some actresses have more than one face lift

Hypernyms ("facelift" is a kind of...):

anaplasty; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery (surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "facelift"):

nose job; rhinoplasty (cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

face lift; face lifting; facelift

Context example:

more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction

Hypernyms ("facelift" is a kind of...):

overhaul; redevelopment; renovation (the act of improving by renewing and restoring)

 Context examples 

Like the rest of Pluto, this region would presumably have been pummeled by space debris for billions of years and would have once been heavily cratered — unless recent activity had given the region a facelift, erasing those pockmarks.

(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)