outface

IPA: ˈaʊtfeɪs

verb

  • (transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay
  • (transitive) To boldly confront a situation.
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Examples of "outface" in Sentences

  • And trying to outface the cameras in jeans and a T-shirt certainly wasn't.
  • The son of two incessantly probing shrinks, he knows how to outface an interrogation.
  • Deng will know that, and he's never tried to outface the Safety Office or civil authority.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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