outface

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay transitive
    — Thou maiſt I warrant, we ſhall haue old ſwearing / That they did giue the Rings away to men, / But weele out-face them, and out-ſweare them too, [...]
  2. To boldly confront a situation. transitive
    — Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

词形变化

outfaces present,singular,third-person outfacing participle,present outfaced participle,past outfaced past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
English outface
From out- + face.
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