"break someone's face" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: breaks someone's face [present, singular, third-person], breaking someone's face [participle, present], broke someone's face [past], broken someone's face [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> someone's face}} break someone's face (third-person singular simple present breaks someone's face, present participle breaking someone's face, simple past broke someone's face, past participle broken someone's face)
  1. (informal, idiomatic) To beat up someone violently. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-break_someone's_face-en-verb-wyKvHLer Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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