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makeover

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈmeɪkˌoʊvɚ//

A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.

noun

  1. 1

    A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.

    This room is a mess; it needs a makeover.

    There was no furniture or carpet to speak of. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere. It was as if they were living like squatters in their own flat. However, this was no time for a makeover, even a fifteen-minute one like on TV[…].

Forms

plural
makeovers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).