face the facts in English

Audio: En-au-face the facts.ogg

Forms: faces the facts [present, singular, third-person], facing the facts [participle, present], faced the facts [participle, past], faced the facts [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} face the facts (third-person singular simple present faces the facts, present participle facing the facts, simple past and past participle faced the facts)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "faces the facts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "facing the facts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faced the facts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faced the facts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "face the facts (third-person singular simple present faces the facts, present participle facing the facts, simple past and past participle faced the facts)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "face facts"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of face facts"
      ],
      "id": "en-face_the_facts-en-verb-2Dlgic0T",
      "links": [
        [
          "face facts",
          "face facts#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-face the facts.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "face the facts"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "faces the facts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "facing the facts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faced the facts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faced the facts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "face the facts (third-person singular simple present faces the facts, present participle facing the facts, simple past and past participle faced the facts)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "face facts"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of face facts"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "face facts",
          "face facts#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-face the facts.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/En-au-face_the_facts.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "face the facts"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"face the facts" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms