outface
/out-feys/US // ˌaʊtˈfeɪs //UK // (ˌaʊtˈfeɪs) //
冒牌货,冒名顶替,冒名顶替者,冒充
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
out·faced, out·fac·ing.
- : to cause to submit by or as if by staring down; face or stare down.
- : to face or confront boldly; defy.
Examples
You have been chased in the field by the grown men of my party; it seems a poor kind of pleasure to outface a boy.
They will try to outface us, my patron; but we shall triumph.
You cannot outface consequences nor outdare natural tragedy; no, not even you, Christina Hope!
To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.
No male body and brain could withstand and outface merely the emotional besiegings of you.
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