different between encountered vs faced
encountered
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?ka?nt?d/, /???ka?nt?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?ka?nt?d/, /???ka?nt?d/
- Hyphenation: en?coun?tered
Verb
encountered
- simple past tense and past participle of encounter
encountered From the web:
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faced
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
Etymology 1
face +? -ed
Verb
faced
- simple past tense and past participle of face
Adjective
faced (not comparable)
- (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, [1]
- The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?
- c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, [2]
- He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.
- 1918, Siegried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches" in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 81, [3]
- You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, [4]
- Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, [1]
- Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of shit-faced.
Adjective
faced (comparative more faced, superlative most faced)
- (slang) drunk
- That night was the first time I ever got faced.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:drunk
Anagrams
- decaf
Spanish
Verb
faced
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of facer.
faced From the web:
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- what is faced and unfaced insulation
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