Definition of "outface" [out•face]

• To overcome with a bold or self-assured look; stare down. (verb-transitive)
• To defy or resist. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The son of two incessantly probing shrinks, he knows how to outface an interrogation."
• "The reverse in the shape of golden Hal Latimar, handsome and indulged but with the courage to outface a Queen and a matriarch to get her."
• "Such a man commits murder, and murder is the natural culmination of his course; such a man has to outface murder, and will do it with hardihood and effrontery."