about-faced
[ noun uh-bout-feys, uh-bout-feys; verb uh-bout-feys ]
Synonyms for about-faced
- overturn
- shift
- about-face
- back
- backpedal
- backtrack
- capsize
- evert
- exchange
- flip-flop
- interchange
- inverse
- invert
- rearrange
- retreat
- revert
- switch
- transfer
- transpose
- upend
- upset
- back up
- double back
- evaginate
- go back
- go backwards
- move backwards
- transplace
- turn around
- turn back
- turn over
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So Eurypelma about-faced like a flash, and Pepsis was foiled in her strategy.
They shouldered their rifles, about-faced, and marched away.
We then about-faced and retraced our steps for some distance.
Immediately they about-faced and stood united against the offender.
Colonel Faison said, “Major Graham, take those three companies on the left we had about-faced down and form on railroad.”
First the column moved a mile or two in one direction, about-faced and returned over the same road.