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单词 white-faced
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Definition of white-faced in English:

white-faced

adjective
  • Pale from fear, ill health, or tiredness.

    she emerged white-faced and shaking
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They would stand before him, white-faced, trembling and so frightened they seemed to lose the shape of humanity itself.
    • When Mrs Williams came into my office in the morning she was white-faced and shaking with rage.
    • Occasionally you see a white-faced soldier in the canteen, his hair matted with sweat, taking half an hour to eat a carrot.
    • His young son comes trailing white-faced behind.
    • An instant later a white-faced, hard - breathing policeman had opened the door, the candle wavering in his trembling hand.
    • Many a movie star was reduced to tears or driven to white-faced rage when they tried to mix in.
    • A white-faced Lieutenant pointed to the huge screen on the wall.
    • The white-faced servants were huddling together in the hall, with the frightened butler wringing his hands in the doorway.
    • A hush seems to fall over the busy Soho snug where we sit as he, white-faced, tries desperately not to burst into tears.
    • He leaped straight up out of bed, trembling and white-faced.
    • Jane looked up white-faced at her father and said, "I must go."
    • She struggled to follow, but the white-faced girls crowded back, blocking her way and shutting her in.
    Synonyms
    white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost
 
 

Definition of white-faced in US English:

white-faced

adjective
  • Pale from fear, ill health, or tiredness.

    she emerged white-faced and shaking
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They would stand before him, white-faced, trembling and so frightened they seemed to lose the shape of humanity itself.
    • Jane looked up white-faced at her father and said, "I must go."
    • Many a movie star was reduced to tears or driven to white-faced rage when they tried to mix in.
    • His young son comes trailing white-faced behind.
    • A white-faced Lieutenant pointed to the huge screen on the wall.
    • An instant later a white-faced, hard - breathing policeman had opened the door, the candle wavering in his trembling hand.
    • The white-faced servants were huddling together in the hall, with the frightened butler wringing his hands in the doorway.
    • A hush seems to fall over the busy Soho snug where we sit as he, white-faced, tries desperately not to burst into tears.
    • He leaped straight up out of bed, trembling and white-faced.
    • When Mrs Williams came into my office in the morning she was white-faced and shaking with rage.
    • Occasionally you see a white-faced soldier in the canteen, his hair matted with sweat, taking half an hour to eat a carrot.
    • She struggled to follow, but the white-faced girls crowded back, blocking her way and shutting her in.
    Synonyms
    white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost
 
 
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