outface

[ out-feys ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, out·faced, out·fac·ing.

outface

/ ˌaʊtˈfeɪs /

Origin of outface¹

First recorded in 1520–30; out- + face

You have been chased in the field by the grown men of my party; it seems a poor kind of pleasure to outface a boy.

They will try to outface us, my patron; but we shall triumph.

You cannot outface consequences nor outdare natural tragedy; no, not even you, Christina Hope!

To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.

No male body and brain could withstand and outface merely the emotional besiegings of you.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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