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means A complete transformation of someone's or something's appearance, usually through styling, cosmetics, clothing, or renovation.

from A straightforward compound of 'make' plus 'over' — meaning to make something anew, built the same way words like 'turnover' or 'hangover' stack a verb and a preposition into one noun. It emerged in the 20th century alongside the rise of beauty and lifestyle media, where the idea of remaking a person's look into a 'before and after' spectacle became its own genre. No hidden story here — the word means exactly what it looks like: making someone over, from scratch.