faced
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
/feɪst/
Definition of faced
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of face
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verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of face
adj
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(in-compounds, not-comparable)Having a specified type or number of faces.
“The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?”
“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.”
“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.”
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(not-comparable)Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
“The cuffs were faced with velvet.”
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(not-comparable)With a specific kind of face.
“stony-faced”
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(slang)drunk
“That night was the first time I ever got faced.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From face + -ed.
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