Faced

/feɪst/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of face.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of face
2. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
3. Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
4. With a specific kind of face.
5. (slang) drunk

Example Sentences

c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, https://books.google.ca/books?id=unlKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?

O tan-faced prairie-boy, / […] / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.

Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

The cuffs were faced with velvet.

stony-faced

That night was the first time I ever got faced.

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Word Forms

• more faced
• most faced

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