encounter

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 16.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
2. verb To confront (someone or something) face to face.
3. verb To meet one another.
4. verb To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.

   Three armies encountered at Waterloo.

5. verb To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
6. noun A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

   Their encounter was a matter of chance.

7. noun A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
8. noun A match between two opposing sides.

Similar words

meet confrontation find take on happen run into chance receive come across run across

Often followed by

with the in a between of and is was

Word family

encountered encountering encounters