confront

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/kənˈfɹʌnt/

verb 5

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

directly

She decided to directly confront her friend about the misunderstanding instead of avoiding it.

immediately, suddenly

PHRASES

be confronted with sth

When she arrived at the office, she was confronted with a mountain of paperwork from the previous week.

find yourself confronted by sth

When she opened the door, she found herself confronted by an angry crowd of reporters.

Definitions

verb

To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.

To deal with.

confront a problem

To bring someone face to face with something.

We should confront him about the missing money.

To come up against; to encounter.

Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.

To engage in confrontation.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — deal with (something unpleasant) head on

face

verb — present somebody with something, usually to accuse or critic

verb — oppose, as in hostility or a competition

face

Antonyms

avoid

Idioms & Phrases

confront one's demons

To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars.

But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront th

Example Bank

It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.

Wiktionary

confront a problem

Wiktionary

We should confront him about the missing money.

Wiktionary

A soldier often has to confront danger.

Tatoeba · #320115

And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.

Tatoeba · #377070

The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms.

Tatoeba · #377072

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