Confront
[kən'frʌnt]
Definition
(verb.) deal with (something unpleasant) head on; 'You must confront your problems'; 'He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes'.
(verb.) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; 'We confronted him with the evidence'; 'He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions'; 'An enormous dilemma faces us'.
(verb.) oppose, as in hostility or a competition; 'You must confront your opponent'; 'Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring'; 'The two enemies finally confronted each other'.
(verb.) be face to face with; 'The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
(v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
(v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Encounter, face, bring face to face, oppose openly.[2]. Compare, bring into comparison.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace
ANT:Rally, encourage, abet, countenance
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Definition
v.t. to stand in front of: to face: to oppose: to bring face to face: to compare.—n. Confrontā′tion the bringing of people face to face.
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Examples
- I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Will you be so good as to confront me with that genius? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She continued to confront him with the same air of ironic composure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Well,' said Bounderby, stopping and facing about to confront them all, 'I'll tell you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Confront me with him,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that is all I ask, and all I require. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You must come, certainly--to confront him, so that he may make no false representations to me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Little Dorrit looked up, surprised, and they confronted Maggy, who brought herself at sight of them to a dead stop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The only army Santa Anna had to protect his capital and the mountain passes west of Vera Cruz, was the one he had with him confronting General Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The two armies had been confronting each other so long, without any decisive result, that they hardly knew which could whip. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During three long years the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia had been confronting each other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Tom by this time had gained his feet, and was confronting his master with a steady, unmoved front. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On the 25th of June General Burnside had commenced running a mine from about the centre of his front under the Confederate works confronting him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Immediately afterwards, he twists him into a public-house and into a parlour, where he confronts him and claps his own back against the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But this is not all of the trouble that confronts us in this case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Do I set my mind to analyse the abominable impossibility which, nevertheless, confronts me as an undeniable fact? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mrs. Chadband, more than ready, so advances as to jostle her husband into the background and confronts Mr. Bucket with a hard, frowning smile. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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