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
But Denzil was between her and the door, so she saw that there was nothing for it but to outface the situation.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
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
They outfaced the greatest and most magnanimious servitours in their sincere and finigraphicall cleane shirts and cuffes.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
The Æsir and the Vanir laughed to see Loki outfaced by Brock the Dwarf in the middle of his boastfulness.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany
It was not lent; it was real as rock, as Nature; it confronted, outfaced, overwhelmed you; for, enchantment so immediate and on such a scale of grandeur and gorgeousness,—who could stand up before it?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
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
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
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
Is the outfacing of five rogues any greater matter than outfacing this God's wilderness?
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
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 Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley
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