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
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
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
A new English plutocracy, mercantile and determined to outface the landed gentry, was on the rise.
From Time Magazine Archive
I, and outface him to, doe what he can.
From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Marlowe, Christopher
Ned is not found until years later, but on the way every conceivable stereotype of the Old South and the Wild West is slyly overturned or brazenly outfaced.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Berinhed's Forest Tristran outfaced one of the great, tawny eagles, who would have carried them both back to its nest to feed its young and was afraid of nothing at all, save fire.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Nothing, the Burgomaster thought, as in a flash of triumph and relief he watched her go, outfaced and defeated.
From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John
New names, new dressings, and the modern cast, Some scenes, some persons alter'd, and outfaced The world, it were thy work; for we have known Some thank'd and praised for what was less their own.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
Now he had audaciously outfaced her, and denied that he ever knew her.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson
Alberto Carvalho wants to install outfacing perimeter cameras at schools to fend off crime, and has appealed to Mayor Karen Bass for speed bumps and flashing lights around campuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement.
From Time Magazine Archive
A drawling commentary by Will James, interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is the outfacing of five rogues any greater matter than outfacing this God's wilderness?
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery
There is no outfacing the menace of death.
From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea
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