outface

[ out-feys ]

verb (used with object),out·faced, out·fac·ing.

to cause to submit by or as if by staring down; face or stare down.
to face or confront boldly; defy.

Origin of outface

First recorded in 1520–30; out- + face

Words Nearby outface

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How to use outface in a sentence

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.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
They will try to outface us, my patron; but we shall triumph.
Two Men of Sandy Bar | Bret Harte
You cannot outface consequences nor outdare natural tragedy; no, not even you, Christina Hope!
"Persons Unknown" | Virginia Tracy
To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.
Kim | Rudyard Kipling
No male body and brain could withstand and outface merely the emotional besiegings of you.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLane

British Dictionary definitions for outface

outface

/ (ˌaʊtˈfeɪs) /

verb(tr)

to face or stare down
to confront boldly or defiantly

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