Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to downface
Participle: downfaced
Gerund: downfacing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | downface |
| you | downface |
| he;she;it | downfaces |
| we | downface |
| you | downface |
| they | downface |
Perfect
| I | have downfaced |
| you | have downfaced |
| he;she;it | has downfaced |
| we | have downfaced |
| you | have downfaced |
| they | have downfaced |
Past
| I | downfaced |
| you | downfaced |
| he;she;it | downfaced |
| we | downfaced |
| you | downfaced |
| they | downfaced |
Pluperfect
| I | had downfaced |
| you | had downfaced |
| he;she;it | had downfaced |
| we | had downfaced |
| you | had downfaced |
| they | had downfaced |
Future
| I | will downface |
| you | will downface |
| he;she;it | will downface |
| we | will downface |
| you | will downface |
| they | will downface |
Future Perfect
| I | will have downfaced |
| you | will have downfaced |
| he;she;it | will have downfaced |
| we | will have downfaced |
| you | will have downfaced |
| they | will have downfaced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | downface |
| you | downface |
| he;she;it | downface |
| we | downface |
| you | downface |
| they | downface |
Perfect
| I | have downfaced |
| you | have downfaced |
| he;she;it | have downfaced |
| we | have downfaced |
| you | have downfaced |
| they | have downfaced |
Imperfect
| I | downfaced |
| you | downfaced |
| he;she;it | downfaced |
| we | downfaced |
| you | downfaced |
| they | downfaced |
Pluperfect
| I | had downfaced |
| you | had downfaced |
| he;she;it | had downfaced |
| we | had downfaced |
| you | had downfaced |
| they | had downfaced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would downface |
| you | would downface |
| he;she;it | would downface |
| we | would downface |
| you | would downface |
| they | would downface |
Perfect
| I | would have downfaced |
| you | would have downfaced |
| he;she;it | would have downfaced |
| we | would have downfaced |
| you | would have downfaced |
| they | would have downfaced |
Imperative
| you | downface |
| we | Let's downface |
| you | downface |
Verbs conjugated like 'downface'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'downface'
downcase,
downdate,
downrate,
boldface,
deface,
donate,
dounce,
downarg,
downcast,
downcycle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From down + face.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1897, Bram Stoker, “Mina Murray’s Journal”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter VI, page 71:]
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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. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 316:]
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Mr Kenmis, this lady at a very great risk to herself has had the courage to downface me in my office and show me that an injustice has been done. [1960, Denis Johnston, The moon in the yellow river. The dreaming dust., page 87:]
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The fact is that Gladstone exaggerated or minimised the role of fenianism depending on what line of opposing argument he was endeavouring to downface at any particular time. [1998, R. V. Comerford, The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society, 1848-82, page 152:]
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Shucks, I didn't want fer them furriners to downface me and, sartin sure, didn't want my kinspeople to be shamed afore them. [1958, June E. Reed, Jest Olga, page 13:]
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For a student to downface and humiliate the Premier in a televised debate, to speak to him as a rather high-handed superior might a junior, as Wuerkaixi did to Li Peng on May 19, was very brave, but also unwise and flatly contradictory to Chinese culture. [1989, Colin Mackerras, Kevin B. Bucknall, Russell B. Trood, The Beijing tragedy: implications for China and Australia, page 32:]
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My feelings had taken over, elation at having been able to downface the silly woman, but anger at her naked, arrogant anti-Semitism. [2001, David Marcus, Oughtobiography: leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, page 77:]