Meaning of face down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To confront; to abash by stern looks.
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To persist in confronting impudently.
   archaic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“That old philosopher grew cross, / Who could not tell⟳ what motion was; / Because he walked against his will, / He faced men down, that he stood still.”

“An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start⟳ had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face⟳ down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.”

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