verb
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to face or stare down
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to confront boldly or defiantly
Etymology
Origin of outface
Example Sentences
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She uses it to outface the world; more importantly, it stores the breath she releases when sculpting the air as she sings.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011
A new English plutocracy, mercantile and determined to outface the landed gentry, was on the rise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Winston Churchill had flown back to Britain and this week would again bulge up in Parliament to face, and probably outface, his critics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Premier Bennett was back in Ottawa and Minister Stevens found that he could no longer outface the intolerable situation The Pamphlet had put him into.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eyes that displace The neighbor diamond and outface That sunshine by their own sweet grace.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio
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