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
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
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
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.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
I don't know what you did in the house, but I think you must have outfaced him in some way.
From Ronicky Doone by Brand, Max
Weel, after the Conventiclers had outfaced us at the Shalloch-on-Minnoch, Clavers and Douglas rode south to the Minnoch Brig that looks to Loch Trool.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Now he has faced Death in person—and outfaced him.
From Getting Together by Hay, Ian
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
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
What hope had such a one of outfacing the decrees of fate?
From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.
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