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
So lone, so very small, with worlds and worlds around, While life remains to it prepared to outface Whatever awful unconjectured mysteries May hide and wait for it in time and space.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
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
But we have outfaced a lot of ridicule.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford
Kate Rice was not one to be outfaced.
From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
She outfaced me as though I had been telling her fairy tales, and not what my own eyes saw.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Jeffery Farnol
Come, Night, and lay thy velvet hand On glorious Day's outfacing face; And all thy crowned flames command For torches to our nuptial grace.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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