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show one's face

show one's face verb: to appear publicly.

Verb

show one's face (third-person singular simple present shows one's face, present participle showing one's face, simple past showed one's face, past participle shown one's face or (US also) showed one's face)

  1. (informal) To appear publicly.
    • But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC

Forms of show one's face

third-person singular presentshows one's face
present participleshowing one's face
pastshowed one's face
past participleshown one's face
past participle US alsoshowed one's face

Questions about show one's face

What does show one's face mean?
Show one's face means to appear publicly.
What part of speech is show one's face?
Show one's face is a verb.
What is the past tense of show one's face?
The past tense of show one's face is showed one's face.

Words near show one's face in the dictionary

  1. show one's age
  2. show one's ass
  3. show one's butt
  4. show one's cards
  5. show one's claws
  6. show one's face
  7. show one's hand
  8. show one's stripes
  9. show one's stuff
  10. show one's teeth
  11. show one's true colors

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