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face-down en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the face, front or surface positioned downward.
    • the face-down cards in a game

Forms

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face-down en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a person or object) In a manner such that the face, front, or surface which is normally directed forward for viewing is positioned downward.
    • She was sleeping face-down on the sofa.
    • He placed the page face-down on the table so that we could not see its contents.

Forms

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Antonyms

face-up

Translations (20)

ca de bocaterrosa (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · tr yüzüstü (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · fi kuvapuoli alaspäin (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · de mit dem Gesicht nach unten (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · ang neowol (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · gl de bruzos (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · fr à plat ventre (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es de buces (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es bocabajo (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · ba йөҙтүбән (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es de bruzos (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · az üzüstə (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · fi alassuin (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · is liggja á grúfu (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · el μπρούμυτα (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es boca abajo (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · el πρηνηδόν (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · et kummuli (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es de bruces (such that the face or front is positioned downward) · es de buzos (such that the face or front is positioned downward)

face-down en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A confrontation.
    • What Herzog makes abundantly clear, as he progresses through accounts of the 40 years of bloodshed that have led to the recent facedowns between American and Israeli allies, is […] 1983, The Marine Corps Gazette, page 90:

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