What does face up mean?

face up means "deal with (something unpleasant) head on".

What is another word for face up?

Close synonyms include confront, face. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is face up a common word?

face up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

face up — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
deal with (something unpleasant) head on
“You must confront your problems”
“He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes”
Synonymsconfront face
Broaderset about
Narrowerundertake

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