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
A few large stars are visible then, lingering to outface the dawn.
From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William
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
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
For the whiner got even less mercy from these men, than he that defied and outfaced them.
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)
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
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
Lo! the hot glare, outfacing the pale moonbeam, the fierce crimson blaze of torches gleaming far down the mountain side, a torrent of rushing fire!
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William
Snipers' posts had been built, outfacing our lines, and German ammunition and bombs and coiled wire and a great litter of timber lay about.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
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