Synonyms for face up to
verb challengeAntonyms for face up to
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confronted
verb. challenge
face the music
verb. accept the consequences
- be punished
- bite the bullet
- come to grips with
- face the facts
- face up to
- face up to it
- grin and bear it
- look square in the eye
- make one's bed and lie on it
- pay the piper
- swallow the pill
- take one's lumps
- take one's medicine
- take the consequences
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Philip Lief Group.
Word Origin & History
late 13c., "front of the head," from Old French face (12c.) "face, countenance, look, appearance," from Vulgar Latin *facia (cf. Italian faccia), from Latin facies "appearance, form, figure," and secondarily "visage, countenance;" probably related to facere "to make" (see factitious).
Replaced Old English andwlita (from root of wlitan "to see, look") and ansyn, the usual word (from the root of seon "see"). In French, the use of face for "front of the head" was given up 17c. and replaced by visage (older vis), from Latin visus "sight." To lose face (or save face), 1876, is said to be from Chinese tu lien. Face value was originally (1878) of bank notes, postage stamps, etc.