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Confront   /kənfrˈənt/   Listen
Confront

verb
(past & past part. confronted; pres. part. confronting)
1.
Oppose, as in hostility or a competition.  Synonym: face.  "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring" , "The two enemies finally confronted each other"
2.
Deal with (something unpleasant) head on.  Synonyms: face, face up.  "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
3.
Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize.  Synonyms: face, present.  "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions" , "An enormous dilemma faces us"
4.
Be face to face with.



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"Confront" Quotes from Famous Books



... love your brother well enough to displease my king. The great earl shall not say, at least, that Richard Plantagenet in his absence forgot the reverence due to loyalty and merit. Tell him that; and if I seem (unlike Clarence) to forbear to confront the queen and her kindred, it is because you should make no enemies,—not the less for that should ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... most fellows do,—there is scant use or grace or common-sense in keeping up, from mere carelessness, or through an irritable habit, a continual bickering, for these germs of evil are possessed of a marvelous faculty for growth, and some day their gigantic deformities will confront you in deeds of which you once ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... of the simile is still more apparent when we confront the material constructions of a nation with the degree of the nation's development or decadence at the time ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

... me in my search for you. I knew that I should have a very small margin of time, and I thought if Homo performed the ceremony and I could confront van Heerden with the ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... new day laid command, every tyrannous hour To confront, or confirm or make smooth some dread issue of power. To deliver true judgment aright at the instant unaided In the strict, level, ultimate phrase that allowed or dissuaded; To foresee, to allay, to avert from us perils unnumbered; To stand guard at ...
— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins


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