confront

About 5.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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. verb To deal with.

   confront a problem

3. verb To bring someone face to face with something.

   We should confront him about the missing money.

4. verb To come up against; to encounter.

   Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.

5. verb To engage in confrontation.
6. verb To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
7. verb To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

Similar words

face up present face confrontation challenge encounter combating contend attack fight

Often followed by

the a him us them and her each their

Word family

confrontal confrontals confronted confronter confronters confronting confronts