confront

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

confronts

V_ing/Gerund

confronting

V_ed/pp

confronted

1.
(transitive)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.
Đồng nghĩa: oppose, challenge
2.
(transitive)To deal with.
confront a problem
Đồng nghĩa: tackle
3.
(transitive)To bring someone face to face with something.
We should confront him about the missing money.
4.
(transitive)To come up against; to encounter.
Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
5.
(intransitive)To engage in confrontation.
6.
(transitive)To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
7.
(transitive)To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

oppose challenge tackle

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unconfrontedcarefrontconfrontativereconfrontconfront one's demonsconfrontableconfrontationconfrontationalconfronterconfrontmentconfrontéconfronté heraldry

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle French confronter, borrowed from cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (front, forehead).