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Encourage female to abandon a facelift -- it melted! (10)

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I believe the answer is:

facilitate

'encourage' is the definition.
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'female to abandon a facelift it melted' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'to abandon' is a deletion indicator.
'melted' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'facelift'+'it'='afaceliftit'
'afaceliftit' with 'f' taken out is 'aaceliftit'.
'aaceliftit' anagrammed gives 'FACILITATE'.

(Other definitions for facilitate that I've seen before include "Make easier" , "Make (something) easy" , "Ease" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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