confront
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- Canada//kənˈfɹʌnt//
- Australia//kənˈfɹɐnt//
- //kənˈfɹʊnt//
- //kɒnˈfɹɒnt//
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
verbo
- 1
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.
- 2
To deal with.
confront a problem
- 3
To bring someone face to face with something.
We should confront him about the missing money.
- 4
To come up against; to encounter.
Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- 5
To engage in confrontation.
- 6
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- 7
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
Etimologia
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
Forme
- passato
- confronted
- participio passato
- confronted
- participio presente
- confronting
- 3ª persona singolare
- confronts
confront · To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
confrontation · The act of confronting or challenging another, especially…confuse · to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict…confused · unable to think clearly or understand