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makeover

[ meyk-oh-ver ]

noun

  1. a remodeling; renovation; restoration:

    The old house needs a complete makeover.

  2. a thorough course of beauty and cosmetic treatments:

    Assistants spent four hours on the actress's makeover in preparation for the awards ceremony.

  3. a change made in one’s life or lifestyle:

    Does your career or marriage need a makeover?



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Word History and Origins

Origin of makeover1

First recorded in 1925–30; noun use of verb phrase make over

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Example Sentences

Little did he know that Jimmy had other plans, including some makeover advice.

Tracie Egan Morissey, who gets the byline for “Disney Dudes' Dicks,” slammed the “makeover.”

“It was like an extreme lifestyle makeover on speed,” Anderson told the The New York Times.

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a makeover.

This is quite a makeover for the country that once claimed to be the vanguard of worldwide communist revolution.

Death Waits had been his Judas goat for the Fantasyland goth makeover.

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