confront

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

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfɹʌnt/

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  • Rhymes: -ʌnt
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/ ^[1]
• Hyphenation: con‧front

confront (third-person singular simple present confronts, present participle confronting, simple past and past participle confronted)

1. (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with

   Synonyms: oppose, challenge

   It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.

2. (transitive) To deal with.

   confront a problem

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.

• confronté (heraldry)