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facedown

[ adverb feys-doun; noun feys-doun ]

adverb

  1. with the face or the front or upper surface downward:

    He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.



noun

  1. Also ڲ-Ƿɲ. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of facedown1

1930–35; facedown ( def 1 ) face + down 1; facedown ( def 2 ) noun use of verb phrase face down
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Example Sentences

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They discovered the 30-year-old's body in the kitchen facedown, and Mr Jones was arrested at 20.02 that day.

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For the first time, she describes waking up on the afternoon that he died in August 1977 and sensing something was wrong, before running into her father's room across the hallway and seeing him facedown on the bathroom floor.

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Ra’Miyah’s brother had unbuckled her from her car seat, and Williams found her facedown on the floor in the backseat of the van.

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Yet AP found instructors at several state-certified training centers continue to teach — wrongly — that holding someone facedown doesn’t cause death by what’s known as positional asphyxia, which happens when the chest can’t expand, starving the body of oxygen.

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Since at least 2011, Georgia has mandated that officers learn how to safely restrain subjects facedown, according to the agency that oversees training.

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