Face
Face verb - To stand or sit with the face or front toward.
Nail
Nail verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
How words are described
| human | human face | human nail |
| long | long face | long nail |
| exact | exact face | exact nail |
| original | original face | original nail |
| Other adjectives: straight, stupid, small, actual, real, large, big, huge, false, main, new, giant, creepy. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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One of the murder victims in Detective Conan paints a small butterfly on her lover's face with nail polish while he's asleep.
Source: Face Doodling - To top it off, Dominica Shapiro killed Nigel Gillespie with a frigging ocarina, while Blake Ross killed Gregory Moyer by hitting him in the face with a bible and knocking his head onto a rusty nail.
Source: Improvised Weapon / Web Original -
Kassandra gets an inquisitive look on her face and drives a nail into the latter.
Source: Film / Warlock
Cite this Source
Nail and Face. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/face/nail
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Nail or Face. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/face/nail.
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