refacev.
/riːˈfeɪs/, U.S. /riˈfeɪs/ 1. transitive. To face (a person or situation) again.
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the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [verb (transitive)] > face
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1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipl. cx. 324 Then, let them face about and close their divisions: and so having refaced them as they were; let them give fire, wheele off, and charge.
1839 J. Briggs Hist. Jim Crow 17 Yes, replied I, refacing him.
1892 Folk-lore 3 391 This is a theory that must be re-faced in respect of each separate tale or cycle of tales.
1906 Daily Chron. 18 Apr. 3/4 Rather than re-face Mag McGhie..David prefers to ‘face an angry Maker’.
1979 R. Rendell Make Death love Me xii. 106 It would teach her to assume responsibility and re-face reality.
2008 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. b1 ‘He would have had to..reface those accusations and insinuations,’ Stewart said. ‘It would not have been pretty.’
2. † b. transitive. To coat (used tea leaves) with a colouring substance to enable reuse. Cf. face v. 9. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To put a new face or surface on (furniture, a stone, building, mechanical component, etc.).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)]
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surface1897
clad1939
1809 Gentleman's Mag. May 431/1 It is the opinion of this Committee, that no part of the surface of the old work be re-worked or re- faced.
1852 C. Brontë Let 6 June in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. xi. 255 On Friday I..visited the churchyard and stone. It must be refaced and relettered.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 155 The tower had been repaired, refaced, and strengthened.
1916 V. Bell Let. 16 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1993) iv. 201 It has been refaced with some kind of quite harmless stucco or plaster and has a creeper over it.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 88 The building material is mainly flint rubble with stone dressings, but part of the tower is refaced with brick.
1999 P. Burgess & D. Gollan How to build, modify, & power tune Cylinder Heads (rev. ed.) vi. 38/2 As with seat cutting, valves can be refaced using either cutting or grinding techniques.
2003 Home Improvem. 1-2-3 (ed. 2) ix. 391/1 While some companies will reface cabinets for you, this can be nearly as expensive as buying new cabinets.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [verb (transitive)] > dilute or adulterate
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to water down1866
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 5/1 Of late years there has been a tremendous deterioration in Chinese tea... No doubt spent leaves have been refaced in quantities.
Derivatives
reˈfacing n. the action or process of refacing something; (concrete) a refaced surface.
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1811 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 206/1 Not any pecuniary recompence could lure me into a combination to do away the original features, either by refacing, re-cutting, or re-constructing of the design.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/1 The great refacing of the Schools quad.
1898 J. T. Fowler Durham Cathedral 26 Modern ‘restorations’ and refacings.
1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook i. 13 Refacing of the valve head seating area must be done on a special universal grinder.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 49 It is clear from the limits of the late 18th-century flagstone floor..that the re-facing of both N. and S. walls was carried out when the flagstones were laid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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