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about face
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about face
about-turn, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthoughts, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backsliding, backup, becoming, better thoughts, betterment, break, change, change of heart, change of mind, change-over, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disenchantment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, do an about-face, face about, fitting, flip, flip-flop, gradual change, growth, improvement, lapse, mature judgment, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, naturalization, overthrow, passage, progress, qualification, radical change, re-creation, re-formation, realignment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restitution, restoration, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revival, revivification, revolution, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, shift, slipping back, sudden change, swingaround, switch, switch-over, tergiversating, tergiversation, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning into, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volte-face, worseningFor further exploring for "about face" in Webster Dictionary Online