confront
Pronunciation: /kənˈfɹʌnt/
The English word “confront” has 7 meanings listed here.
verb
- To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
- To deal with.
- To bring someone face to face with something.
- To come up against; to encounter.
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
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