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OUTFACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does outface mean?
• OUTFACE (verb)
The verb OUTFACE has 1 sense:
1. overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring
Familiarity information: OUTFACE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they outface ... he / she / it outfaces
Past simple: outfaced
Past participle: outfaced
-ing form: outfacing
Past simple: outfaced
Past participle: outfaced
-ing form: outfacing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
outface; outstare; stare down
Context example:
He simply stared down his opponent
Hypernyms (to "outface" is one way to...):
gaze; stare (look at with fixed eyes)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot outface Sue
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