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Outface

verb
(past & past part. outfaced; pres. part. outfacing)
1.
Overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring.  Synonyms: outstare, stare down.






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"Outface" Quotes from Famous Books



... on what you mean," he said, determined not to let her outface him. "If you mean a regular cut and dried ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... common tall, That I did suit me all points like a man? A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand; and—in my heart Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will— We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... which, in sundry formes, (as Sphaerike, Plaine or other), the Situation of Cities, Townes, Villages, Fortes, Castells, Mountaines, Woods, Hauens, Riuers, Crekes, & such other things, vpon the outface of the earthly Globe (either in the whole, or in some principall member and portion therof contayned) may be described and designed, in commensurations Analogicall to Nature and veritie: and most aptly to our vew, may be represented." Of this Arte how ...
— The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara • John Dee

... We shall have old swearing,[113] That they did give the rings away to men; But we'll outface them, and outswear them, too. Away, make haste; thou know'st where ...
— The Merchant of Venice [liberally edited by Charles Kean] • William Shakespeare



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