💄 Wearing lipstick 🎭 Superficially improved 💄 To apply lipstick

to lipsticked

5.6

To put lipstick on one's lips

verb
/ˈlɪpˌstɪkt/

: pintar los labios

The actress lipsticked herself in the mirror before stepping onto the red carpet.

Examples

By the time the guests arrived, he had already lipsticked his stage partner for the performance.
He watched as she lipsticked her friend's lips.
She had lipsticked her lips quickly before leaving for the interview.
She lipsticked her lips before the party.
She had lipsticked her lips quickly before leaving for the interview.
The actress lipsticked herself in the mirror before stepping onto the red carpet.
He watched as she lipsticked her friend's lips.

Antonyms

to wash off

31 1.0

To remove something from a surface by washing with water or soap

Surface Forms

lipstick infinitive

lipsticked past

lipsticked past participle

lipsticking present participle

Morphology

lipsticked = lipstick (transparent) = lip + stick + ed

The past-tense/participial -ed is a straightforward morphological marker on the verb 'lipstick', which is a transparent denominal verb meaning 'apply lipstick'.

Etymology

Lipsticked comes from lipstick, the name for the small stick made for the lips, from lip + stick. It means 'to have put lipstick on' someone or yourself. So to say someone 'lipsticked' is to say they put lipstick on.