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Meaning of beat one's face | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To apply makeup.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, face.

Examples

“Nicole took her time as she laid all her MAC cosmetics on the dresser in a neat row. After beating her face⟳ down she took off the ivory silk robe to hang⟳ it behind the door.”
“Sitting on the bathtub ledge in our tiny apt and watching my mom beat⟳ her face⟳. My mom was a makeup junkie.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

beat one's meat beat one's swords into ploughshares beat one's swords into plowshares beat oneself beat out beat someone at their own game

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