Antonyms of FACE DOWN

• calm, keep silent, concur, agree, participate, aid, sitting, comply, ignore, overlook, abstain, retreat, accept, answer, straight, go along, decision, allow, favor, upright, surrender, assist, victory, join, evade, harmonize, dodge, keep quiet, give in, unlikely, deny, permit, back down, improbably, approve, help, support, yield, agreement, make peace, encourage, forward, avoid.

Synonyms of FACE DOWN

• claim, Outbrazen, jump on, stick it to, controvert, denounce, quibble, topsy-turvy, feud, get in one's face, withstand, back to front, deny, hash over, stand up to, hang in, fight, hammer, stare down, meet head-on, repel, revolt, rehash, recumbent, hash, impugn, horizontal, face, check, go one-on-one, bar, face the music, invite competition, summon, test, provoke, prone, make a point of, affront, stand, outlook, argue, intimidate, Fronting, hinder, demand, have at it, call out, vindicate, speak against, arouse, disagree, reclining, level, dare, contend with, jump, row, outstare, stick it out, impeach, resupine, defy, cow, tell off, set to, encounter, protest, gainsay, counterattacked, confront, front, browbeat, buck, query, come up against, prostrate, not countenanced, bombard, backward, counterattack, stand up against, wrangle, overawe, accumbent, put up a struggle, squabble, hammer away, faced up to, put up a fight, quarrel, procumbent, break with, face up to, beard, insist upon, decumbent, mix it up, take on, object, bicker, call in question, go one on one, debate, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, Outdare, cross swords, counter-attacks, frown at, come against, sass, go against, combat, brave, counter, taunt, throw down the gauntlet, oppose, expose, assault, bump heads, try, outface, dispute, subdue, run counter to, lock horns, flout, reverse, prevent, challenge, attack, altercate, reclaim, meet, impose, counter-attack, resist, accost, investigate, bandy, have at each other, battle, contend, complain, assail, pick an argument, inside-out, take a stand, stimulate, cross, dissent, face off, neutralize, outbrave, brazen out, contradict, make a stand, upside down, knock around, Reluct, lying down, assert, go up against, disapprove, exact, call one's bluff, upturned, search out, recalcitrate, supine, object to, thwart, turn the tables, kick, counterattacking, hassle, take issue, talk back, gang up on, make my day, fly in the face of, turned the tables, ask for, face with, scorn, tax, sock it to, pettifog, flat, inquire, remonstrate, call for, not countenance, require.