downface

English

Etymology

down +‎ face

Verb

downface (third-person singular simple present downfaces, present participle downfacing, simple past and past participle downfaced)

(transitive, archaic, rare) to persist boldly in an assertion
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 6, Mina Murray's Journal
  He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
  Episode 12, The Cyclops
  Didn't I tell you? As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.

Anagrams

face down, face-down, facedown

单词	downface
释义	downface English Etymology down +‎ face Verb downface (third-person singular simple present downfaces, present participle downfacing, simple past and past participle downfaced) (transitive, archaic, rare) to persist boldly in an assertion 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 6, Mina Murray's Journal He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views. 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483: Episode 12, The Cyclops Didn't I tell you? As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living. Anagrams face down, face-down, facedown
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