confront.
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.