Thesaurus / about-faced
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synonyms for about-faced
- react
- go back
- degenerate
- regress
- retrogress
- decline
- return
- relapse
- recur
- resume
- about-face
- lapse
- transpose
- turn
- recrudesce
- flip-flop
- retrograde
- invert
- backslide
- change
- deteriorate
- come back
- inverse
- hark back
- turn back
- fall off the wagon
- take up where left off
- throw back
- shuffle
- veer
- drift
- transfer
- move
- vary
- remove
- deviate
- turn
- relocate
- ship
- alter
- change
- swerve
- about-face
- replace
- slip
- substitute
- flip-flop
- stir
- exchange
- transpose
- displace
- rearrange
- tack
- transmogrify
- cook
- waffle
- disturb
- vacillate
- fault
- budge
- dislocate
- blow hot and cold
- do up
- hem and haw
- yo-yo
- reposition
- bottom out
- change gears
- dial back
- move around
- move over
- recalibrate
- swap places
- switch over
- turn around
- turn the corner
- turn the tables
- convert
- return
- shift
- move
- transform
- twist
- switch
- swing
- change
- swerve
- depart
- curve
- vary
- direct
- sidetrack
- pivot
- whip
- whirl
- sheer
- inverse
- relapse
- subvert
- retrace
- invert
- alternate
- diverge
- upset
- about-face
- swirl
- sway
- deviate
- wheel
- detour
- zigzag
- tack
- recoil
- detract
- capsize
- incline
- veer
- revert
- alter
- backslide
- aim
- digress
- regress
- loop
- call off
- double back
- go back
- redirect
- shunt
- volte-face
- change position
- face about
- rechannel
- shy away
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How to use about-faced in a sentence
I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANShe was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI"I'll take charge of this, Captain Dobson," he brusquely informed the red-faced numskull.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRHe was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThe latter is a square-faced practical man, who is looked up to as a species of oracle by all his friends.
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNEHis mind had gone back to the time when he and Guilford had so nearly faced death in among the Boston mountains.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNBefore he faced Lettice, he must forget a moment—forget his fears, his hopes, his ceaseless torment of belief and doubt.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODHe was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWThey are faced by a horrid redoubt held by machine guns, and they are to rush it with the bayonet.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONIn one instant the mottled-faced gentleman depressed his hand again, and every glass was set down empty.
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