Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈfɹʌnt/
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- (obsolete) IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/ [1]
- Hyphenation: con‧front
Verb
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
- Synonyms: oppose, challenge
It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
- (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.
Translations
to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance
- Afrikaans: konfronteer
- Albanian: ballafaqoj (sq)
- Bikol Central: atubang (bcl)
- Bulgarian: противостоя (bg) (protivostoja), изправям се пред (izpravjam se pred)
- Catalan: confrontar (ca), enfrontar (ca)
- Dutch: confronteren (nl)
- Esperanto: konfronti, alfronti
- Finnish: kohdata (fi)
- French: confronter (fr)
- German: konfrontieren (de), entgegentreten (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ἐπέρχομαι (epérkhomai) (ἐπὶ + dat.)
- Hebrew: הִתְעַמֵּת (he) (hit'amét)
- Ido: konfrontar (io)
- Italian: affrontare (it), confrontare (it)
- Latin: confrontō
- Lü: ᦎᦹᧅ (ṫuek)
- Maori: whakapātari, tuma, whakahorohoro, whakatuma
- Occitan: afrontar (oc)
- Portuguese: confrontar (pt), enfrentar (pt)
- Russian: противостоя́ть (ru) impf (protivostojátʹ)
- Spanish: enfrentar (es), confrontar (es), salirle al paso
- Thai: เผชิญหน้า (th) (pà-chəən-nâa), สู้หน้า (th)
- Turkish: yüzleşmek (tr) (cope with), göğüs germek (tr) (idiomatic, withstand)
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to bring someone face to face with something
to come up against; to encounter
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
Translations to be checked
References
“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.