Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To overcome with a bold or self-assured look; stare down.
- transitive verb To confront boldly; defy or resist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confront boldly; brave; defy.
- To keep or force by boldness.
- To face or stare down; confront with assurance, boastfully, or overbearingly; browbeat.
- To face out; counteract by assurance; put a good face on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
disconcert someone with anunblinking face-to-face confrontation ; tostare down - verb To
boldly confront a situation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring
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Examples
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The son of two incessantly probing shrinks, he knows how to outface an interrogation.
Savages Don Winslow 2010
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The reverse in the shape of golden Hal Latimar, handsome and indulged but with the courage to outface a Queen and a matriarch to get her.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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The son of two incessantly probing shrinks, he knows how to outface an interrogation.
Savages Don Winslow 2010
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Such a man commits murder, and murder is the natural culmination of his course; such a man has to outface murder, and will do it with hardihood and effrontery.
Hunted Down 2007
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Such a man commits murder, and murder is the natural culmination of his course; such a man has to outface murder, and will do it with hardihood and effrontery.
Hunted Down 2007
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Deng will know that, and he's never tried to outface the Safety Office or civil authority.
Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004
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No glaring chalk, no grim sandstone, no rugged flint, outface it; but deep rich meadows, and foliage thick, and cool arcades of ancient trees, defy the noise that men make.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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At this stifling price they kept their flesh unbroken, for they feared the sand particles which would wear open the chaps into a painful wound: but, for my own part, I always rather liked a khamsin, since its torment seemed to fight against mankind with ordered conscious malevolence, and it was pleasant to outface it so directly, challenging its strength, and conquering its extremity.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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And trying to outface the cameras in jeans and a T-shirt certainly wasn't.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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She would have to be really brazen to go amongst his friends after last night's public humiliation and boldly outface their new perception of her.
The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002
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