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look in the face

look in the face verb: to confront with courage, without fear.

Verb

look in the face (third-person singular simple present looks in the face, present participle looking in the face, simple past and past participle looked in the face)

  1. (transitive) To confront with courage, without fear.
  2. (transitive) To relate to someone without shame, or as having made similar achievements or dealt with similar adversity.

Forms of look in the face

third-person singular presentlooks in the face
present participlelooking in the face
past participlelooked in the face
pastlooked in the face

Questions about look in the face

What does look in the face mean?
Look in the face means to confront with courage, without fear.
What part of speech is look in the face?
Look in the face is a verb.
What is the past tense of look in the face?
The past tense of look in the face is looked in the face.

Words near look in the face in the dictionary

  1. look fun
  2. look funn
  3. look here
  4. look in
  5. look in on
  6. look in the face
  7. look into
  8. look it
  9. look like
  10. look like a bomb has hit it
  11. look like one swallowed a bug

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