Synonyms for Face up to:

• v.

  •confront (verb)
  • meet eyeball-to-eyeball,
  • call one's bluff,
  • oppose,
  • meet,
  • scorn,
  • dare,
  • resist,
  • face with,
  • repel,
  • stand up to,
  • affront,
  • brave,
  • defy,
  • come up against,
  • front,
  • beard,
  • tell off,
  • withstand,
  • face down,
  • make my day,
  • accost,
  • go one-on-one,
  • go up against,
  • flout,
  • encounter.
  •face the music (verb)
  • come to grips with,
  • bite the bullet.

• Other synonyms:

  •confront
  • stand to,
  • stood up to,
  • standing to,
  • come against,
  • Fronting,
  • faced up to,
  • go against,
  • go one on one.
  •Other relevant words:
  • take one's lumps,
  • face the facts,
  • be punished,
  • face the music,
  • look square in the eye,
  • face up to it,
  • grin and bear it,
  • face,
  • pay the piper,
  • take one's medicine,
  • swallow the pill,
  • make one's bed and lie on it,
  • take the consequences,
  • take medicine,
  • face it,
  • confront.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • complain,
  • confess,
  • dissent,
  • brassy,
  • gamble,
  • facing,
  • revolt,
  • speak out,
  • challenge,
  • stand up against,
  • meet head-on,
  • Reluct,
  • risk,
  • face up,
  • make a stand,
  • bell the cat,
  • take a chance,
  • contend with,
  • take chances,
  • set against,
  • kick,
  • speak up,
  • acknowledge,
  • dispute,
  • recalcitrate,
  • brazen.

Antonyms for Face up to:

• v.

  • confront
    back down, surrender, yield, avoid, dodge, evade.