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Another word for beard

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Verb

  1. To confront boldly and courageously

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    See also:

    resist

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Another word for beard

Noun
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Sentence Examples

  • These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows.

  • "I can't imagine you with a beard," she finally said.

  • In his eyes the beard was a symbol of the old regime, and as such it must be removed.

  • On the importance attached to the beard, see Ency.

  • Their opinion and practice will be best represented in the words of one of their early teachers (quoted by Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 63): "When thou art alone in thy cell shut thy door, and seat thyself in a corner; raise thy mind above all things vain and transitory; recline thy beard and chin on thy breast; turn thine eyes and thy thought towards the middle of thy belly, the region of the navel (6j4 aXos); and search the place of the heart, the seat of the soul.

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