to outface
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- verb
- /aʊtˈfeɪs/
:
desafiar
- She managed to outface her opponents during the debate with her unwavering confidence.
Examples
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This comes in an essay actually entitled 'Authors,' which takes up the mythology of 'the death of the author' as itself answering to a cultural need, a ploy that tries to outface the facts of an unexpended interest in authors:
Academic text (1990) -
I outfaced both of them, Charles.
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Dost thou come here to whine, to outface me with leaping in her grave?
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Social history is a successor to Whiggish views of progress and to nationalist history, and this is one area where we may have outfaced the momentum of American middle-class culture.
Academic text (1995) -
Scambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys, that lie and cog, and flout, deprave and slander.
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In the tones of a football coach explaining a busted play, he apologized for the jolt, said those electric storms were the dillies, but they had outfaced the sucker.
Fiction book (1997) -
Despite the intimidating crowd, he was able to outface them by maintaining direct eye contact.
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To succeed in negotiations, it is important to outface any adversaries who challenge your position.
Synonyms
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To look at someone without moving your eyes until they look away or give up
To look at someone without blinking longer so they look away
Antonyms
How Intimidating
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word outface comes from out- 'more than' and face 'to look at someone', so imagine 'facing' someone more strongly than they can face you, like winning a stare contest. That's why to outface someone is to defeat or scare them by staring them down or by showing bold confidence.