makeover
a remodeling; renovation; restoration: The old house needs a complete makeover.
a thorough course of beauty and cosmetic treatments: Assistants spent four hours on the actress's makeover in preparation for the awards ceremony.
a change made in one’s life or lifestyle: Does your career or marriage need a makeover?
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How to use makeover in a sentence
I wanted to do the “everyone’s at a ball and Harrow’s received a makeover.”
How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera | Constance Grady | February 5, 2021 | VoxLibby’s pumpkin pie recipe just got a makeover for the 21st century — and we made it betterYou can buy cardamom already ground, or grind it yourself using a spice grinder or a mortar and pestle.
Make fragrant, floral cardamom your spice of the season with these 6 recipes | Kari Sonde | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostThe four-year investment, announced in 2016, was intended to upgrade the customer experience with new ATMs, new digital tools, and branch makeovers.
How Jane Fraser broke banking’s highest glass ceiling | Claire Zillman, reporter | October 19, 2020 | FortuneCreating a joyful home office entails a physical and mental makeover.
Inside, the cabin gets a much-needed makeover, filled with high-quality materials, optional 8-inch touchscreen and a racy flat-bottom steering wheel.
Little did he know that Jimmy had other plans, including some makeover advice.
Viral Video of the Day: Jared Leto Tries a New Barber | Jack Holmes | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTracie Egan Morissey, who gets the byline for “Disney Dudes' Dicks,” slammed the “makeover.”
Full Frontal Disney: Feminism's Nudity Double Standard | Emily Shire | August 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“It was like an extreme lifestyle makeover on speed,” Anderson told the The New York Times.
Feeding Diddy’s Art Addiction: How Maria Brito Buys Art for Celebrites | Justin Jones | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a makeover.
The Met Dedicates Costume Center to Anna Wintour | The Fashion Beast Team | January 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis 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.
Makers | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for make over
to transfer the title or possession of (property, etc)
to renovate or remodel: she made over the dress to fit her sister
a complete remodelling
a series of alterations, including beauty treatments and new clothes, intended to make a noticeable improvement in a person's appearance
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with makeover
Redo, renovate, as in We're making over the playroom into an additional bedroom. [Late 1600s]
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