The antonym for the term "face up" is "face down" - this refers to the orientation of an object or person with their face or front side downwards. This can be used in various contexts, such as placing a book face down to mark your place, or a person lying face down on a massage table. "Face down" can also refer to a negative outcome, as in "I'm afraid my business proposal was turned face down by the board of directors". Other antonyms for "face up" may include "ignore", "disregard", "deny", or "refuse", which refer to refusing to confront or address something.

What are the antonyms for Face up?

• v.

  • noun
  • avoid
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Famous quotes with Face up

• Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

  Gerry Adams
• One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

  Kenneth Branagh
• The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

  Tony Campolo
• I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

  Kenneth Clarke
• The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

  Jim Garrison

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