confront
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kənˈfɹʌnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌnt
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/ [1]
- Hyphenation: con‧front
Verb edit
confront (third-person singular simple present confronts, present participle confronting, simple past and past participle confronted)
- (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
- (transitive) To deal with.
- confront a problem
- (transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.
- We should confront him about the missing money.
- (transitive) To come up against; to encounter.
- Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- (intransitive) To engage in confrontation.
- (transitive) To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- (transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Related terms edit
- confronté (heraldry)
Translations edit
to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance
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to deal with
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to bring someone face to face with something
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to come up against; to encounter
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to engage in confrontation
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to set a thing side by side with; to compare
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to put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to
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References edit
- ^ “Confront” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 159.