Bearded

verb

1. To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

   "Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham."

3. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4. To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
5. Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.