Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In a position so that the face is up.
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- adverb In a position that the
face may be seen
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Examples
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I had seen dead birds before and once saw three dead rabbits, but never a man lying face-up, like a mannequin in a box.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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In some poker variants the cards are dealt face-up, in others they are dealt face-down.
Learn Your Poker ABCs With Poker Tutorials | Poker Hands 2010
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This is how the glances of mourners must have felt to my uncle as he lay face-up in a suit worn only four times in life.
Dumping my Dead Uncle's Clothes William Doreski 2011
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What does this mean for the country's interest rates and will Budapest face-up to the fall out from the euro-zone's crisis?
Hungary Standoff Spurs Currency's Fall Gordon Fairclough 2012
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Officers who responded to the East New York apartment found Ms. Brown lying face-up on her bed with a gunshot wound to the head.
Worker for City Is Killed Pervaiz Shallwani 2011
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Even as a public company "we cannot be held captive to financial results" and that, "As an Aliren, I have learned that one must bravely face-up to and assume responsibility."
Alibaba.com Returns to Its Roots With New CEO Loretta Chao 2011
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He was always more of a face-up, drive off the elbow, passer-type player. ...
The deer to fear: Taking Skiles' lead, Bucks on playoffs brink 2010
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I had seen dead birds before and once saw three dead rabbits, but never a man lying face-up, like a mannequin in a box.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The dealer then burns one last card, and deals the final face-up community card, referred to as ‘Fifth Street’ or the ‘river’.
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He looks down at it, ace of hearts; of course it's landed face-up.
Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011
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