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face lift collapse: a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes; "give your home a facelift"; "more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction"; 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; "some actresses have more than one face lift"

bell the cat collapse: take a risk; perform a daring act; "Who is going to bell the cat?"

urban renewal collapse: the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums

renovation collapse: the act of improving by renewing and restoring; "they are pursuing a general program of renovation to the entire property"; "a major overhal of the healthcare system was proposed"; the state of being restored to its former good condition; "the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"

turnaround collapse: act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip; an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around; time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip

recondition collapse: bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances"

juxtaposed collapse: placed side by side often for comparison; "juxtaposed pictures"

pout collapse: a disdainful grimace; make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

inversion collapse: the act of turning inside out; turning upside down; setting on end; a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex; (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa; (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed; the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer; a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa; abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)

speak up collapse: speak louder; raise one's voice; "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"

contiguous collapse: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"

stare down collapse: overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring; "He simply stared down his opponent"

avert collapse: turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"

switch over collapse: change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

adjacent collapse: near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"; nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"

refurbish collapse: make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate"

escalate collapse: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

connecting collapse: syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction"

retread collapse: a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads; give new treads to (a tire)

endways collapse: with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways"; in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure"; on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways"

grimace collapse: a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"; contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

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