confrontation

UK /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/ US /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

full-scale, major, serious

The two countries narrowly avoided a major confrontation over the disputed territory.

direct, eyeball-to-eyeball, face-to-face, head-on, outright | open | bitter, bloody, heated, ugly, violent | armed, military | political

QUANT

series

VERB + CONFRONTATION

have | cause, end in, lead to, provoke

bring sb into

The new safety rules brought workers into confrontation with management over wages.

avoid

CONFRONTATION + VERB

arise, take place

PREP

~ between

There was a serious confrontation between the two neighbors about the garden fence.

~ over

The two neighbors had a serious confrontation over the boundary fence.

~ with

She had a heated confrontation with her neighbor about the noisy construction work.

Definitions

noun

The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]

A conflict between armed forces.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of hostile groups opposing each other

opposition

noun — a hostile disagreement face-to-face

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

He deliberately kept on provoking a confrontation.

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I don't like confrontation.

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Some journalists claim that Russia and the U.S. are in confrontation as competitors in the battle for influence on the development of Ukraine.

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Tom really wanted to walk away from the confrontation, but the bystanders kept egging him on.

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Fadil came to Layla and told her about the confrontation with his mother.

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