confront
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confront
- /kənˈfɹʌnt/ Canada, US, UK
- /kənˈfɹɐnt/ Australia, New Zealand
- /kənˈfɹʊnt/ Northern England
- /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/ obsolete
Rhymes with -ʌnt
Where it comes from
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
verb confronts · confronting · confronted
- 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.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
