face out

verb

To carry off by bold looks; to see something unpleasant through with courage and spirit.

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Meanings

verbface out (third-person singular simple present faces out, present participle facing out, simple past and past participle faced out)

present singular third person faces out · participle present facing out · participle past faced out · past faced out

  1. To carry off by bold looks; to see something unpleasant through with courage and spirit.

    `Well,' I said to the others, `I don't at all like the look of things, but I suppose we must face it out.'

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tough out
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APA

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