makeover

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makeover (plural makeovers)

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.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     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 […] .

• makeunder

• facelift
• overhaul
• revamp

• mummy makeover

• make over (verb)

• overmake