Thesaurus / about-facing
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synonyms for about-facing
- degenerate
- go back
- hark back
- react
- regress
- turn back
- about-face
- backslide
- change
- decline
- deteriorate
- flip-flop
- invert
- lapse
- recrudesce
- recur
- relapse
- resume
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- transpose
- turn
- come back
- fall off the wagon
- inverse
- take up where left off
- throw back
- alter
- change
- deviate
- drift
- move
- relocate
- remove
- ship
- shuffle
- transfer
- turn
- vary
- veer
- about-face
- budge
- cook
- dislocate
- displace
- disturb
- exchange
- fault
- flip-flop
- rearrange
- replace
- reposition
- slip
- stir
- substitute
- swerve
- tack
- transmogrify
- transpose
- vacillate
- waffle
- yo-yo
- blow hot and cold
- bottom out
- change gears
- dial back
- do up
- hem and haw
- move around
- move over
- recalibrate
- swap places
- switch over
- turn around
- turn the corner
- turn the tables
- change
- convert
- move
- return
- shift
- swing
- switch
- transform
- twist
- about-face
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- backslide
- capsize
- curve
- depart
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- digress
- direct
- diverge
- incline
- inverse
- invert
- loop
- pivot
- recoil
- redirect
- regress
- relapse
- retrace
- revert
- sheer
- shunt
- sidetrack
- subvert
- sway
- swerve
- swirl
- tack
- upset
- vary
- veer
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip around
- whirl
- zigzag
- call off
- change position
- double back
- face about
- go back
- rechannel
- shy away
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How to use about-facing in a sentence
Liszt was seated at another grand facing me, and the room was dimly illuminated by one or two lamps.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYThe cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.
DOPESAX ROHMERThe courage of the natives proved unequal to the danger of facing such a charge.
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNEA tall man with a rather severe cast of countenance stood facing him in silence.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOODAristide gave the order to the cabman and took the little seat in the cab facing his employers.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEIt is on the slope facing west, and the sun floods it from nine until four.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSYung Pak was directed to seat himself on the floor in the centre of the room, facing the east.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEOn each side of this arch, facing the entrance door, were divans covered with embroideries and heaped with enormous cushions.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSThese stories by a round-about way, gathering in circumstantial detail as they travelled, had reached his sister.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODFacing them, directly in their way between the doorposts, stood the figure of a woman.
THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOOD