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Words related to countenance
coun·te·nance
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face
the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin. -
pale
light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home. -
abet
If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'. -
brow
Your brow is your forehead. -
forbidding
grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance. -
grim
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.