Antonyms for face down
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : feys |
| Phonetic Transcription : feɪs |
- abstain
- accept
- agree
- agreement
- aid
- allow
- answer
- approve
- assist
- avoid
- back down
- calm
- comply
- concur
- decision
- deny
- dodge
- encourage
- evade
- favor
- forward
- give in
- go along
- harmonize
- help
- ignore
- improbably
- join
- keep quiet
- keep silent
- make peace
- overlook
- participate
- permit
- retreat
- sitting
- straight
- support
- surrender
- unlikely
- upright
- victory
- yield
Definition of face down
Origin :- late 13c., "front of the head," from Old French face (12c.) "face, countenance, look, appearance," from Vulgar Latin *facia (cf. Italian faccia), from Latin facies "appearance, form, figure," and secondarily "visage, countenance;" probably related to facere "to make" (see factitious).
- Replaced Old English andwlita (from root of wlitan "to see, look") and ansyn, the usual word (from the root of seon "see"). In French, the use of face for "front of the head" was given up 17c. and replaced by visage (older vis), from Latin visus "sight." To lose face (or save face), 1876, is said to be from Chinese tu lien. Face value was originally (1878) of bank notes, postage stamps, etc.
- As in prone : adj lying down
- As in argue : verb verbally fight
- As in oppose : verb fight, obstruct
- As in challenge : verb dispute, question
- As in confront : verb challenge
- He grabbed a handful of shirt on the first torpedo and poked his face down.
- Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison
- Wade was lying under the shelter, face down into his coat-sleeve.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- And with a sort of grateful, loving tenderness, she drew his face down to hers and kissed him.
- Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
- "You are angry," she was crying now, her face down on her hands.
- Extract from : « Isabel Leicester » by Clotilda Jennings
- I lifted my arm and put it round her neck and drew her face down to mine.
- Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
- "Then you will be naughty, and papa cannot love you," bending his face down to hers.
- Extract from : « Floyd Grandon's Honor » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- At night, when it is all soft dark, and when she puts her face down on my pillow.
- Extract from : « Floyd Grandon's Honor » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and taking him by the hand led him forward.
- Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
- He reached the still figure where it lay slackly, face down.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- She was instantly on her knees beside him, drawing his face down to hers.
- Extract from : « Children of the Desert » by Louis Dodge
Synonyms for face down
- accost
- affront
- altercate
- argue
- arouse
- ask for
- assail
- assault
- assert
- attack
- bandy
- bar
- battle
- beard
- bicker
- bombard
- brave
- break with
- buck
- bump heads
- call for
- call in question
- call one's bluff
- call out
- check
- claim
- combat
- come up against
- confront
- contend
- contradict
- controvert
- counter
- counterattack
- cross
- cross swords
- dare
- debate
- decumbent
- defy
- demand
- denounce
- deny
- disagree
- disapprove
- dispute
- encounter
- exact
- expose
- face
- face down
- face off
- face the music
- face up to
- face with
- feud
- fight
- flat
- flout
- fly in the face of
- front
- frown at
- gainsay
- gang up on
- get in one's face
- go one on one
- go one-on-one
- go up against
- hammer
- hammer away
- hang in
- hash
- hash over
- hassle
- have at each other
- have at it
- hinder
- horizontal
- impeach
- impose
- impugn
- inquire
- insist upon
- investigate
- invite competition
- jump
- jump on
- knock around
- level
- lock horns
- make a point of
- make a stand
- make my day
- meet
- meet eyeball-to-eyeball
- mix it up
- neutralize
- not countenance
- object to
- oppose
- pettifog
- pick an argument
- prevent
- procumbent
- prostrate
- protest
- provoke
- put up a fight
- put up a struggle
- quarrel
- query
- quibble
- reclaim
- reclining
- recumbent
- rehash
- repel
- require
- resist
- resupine
- reverse
- row
- run counter to
- sass
- scorn
- search out
- set to
- sock it to
- speak against
- squabble
- stand up to
- stick it out
- stick it to
- stimulate
- summon
- supine
- take a stand
- take issue
- take on
- talk back
- taunt
- tax
- tell off
- test
- throw down the gauntlet
- thwart
- try
- turn the tables
- vindicate
- withstand
- wrangle
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