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confront

[kuhn-fruhnt]

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verb (used with object)

to face in hostility or defiance; oppose: The feuding factions confronted one another.

to present for acknowledgment, contradiction, etc.; set face to face: They confronted him with evidence of his crime.

to stand or come in front of; stand or meet facing: The two long-separated brothers confronted each other speechlessly.

to be in one's way: the numerous obstacles that still confronted him.

to bring together for examination or comparison.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin confrontārī, equivalent to Latin con- con- + -frontārī, derivative of Latin frōns forehead, front

Related forms

con·front·al, con·front·ment, noun

con·front·er, noun

re·con·front, verb (used with object)

un·con·front·ed, adjective

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Or they do not want to confront the intensified security, the risk of bomb threats.

As nations around the planet wrestle with life-or-death decisions about whether and how to confront.

On the other hand, thankfully, he has yet to confront a serious crisis.

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Or they do not want to confront the intensified security, the risk of bomb threats.

As nations around the planet wrestle with life-or-death decisions about whether and how to confront.

On the other hand, thankfully, he has yet to confront a serious crisis.

Wendy undergoes cognitive therapy to confront her fear of heights.

Knowing how the brain works up the courage to confront fear could help.

Journalists who cover technology and business also confront embargoes.

Despite sustained efforts to confront this problem, elite colleges sometimes seem to be compounding it.

The world has enough threatening crises to confront without accepting yet another.

Matt's mission is to confront these animals head-on and relocate them.

But, humanity must confront all these issues which can no longer be ignore because globally the effects will spread.

But ultimately, this borderless collaboration will have to confront the tensions of the political world.

It seemed an ethical imperative to confront the transformation of everyday life.

They are the one group that the military regime might hesitate to confront.

Others take a quiet approach and simply confront the animals with a silent stare.

But it's as hard for us to confront sore issues as it is for everyone else.

My own feeling is that our meetings confront us with administrative imperatives that make room for only small details.

If something goes wrong, they want to be able to jump on a plane and confront the problem in a couple of hours.

Shiffai has never been afraid to confront the truth in his music.

Made federal agencies confront abysmal computer-security performance.

They swim with sharks, confront venomous snakes, and stalk hungry lions.

Foxconn has tried to manage perceptions where it can, if not actually confront the oddly tragic trend within the company.

Everyone in the restaurant came out to confront him and he ran off.

Global warming denial guys don't even confront global warming.

It can teach us some of the diverse ways in which oppressed human beings confront and transcend oppression.

Both machines immediately confront the user with annoying software configuration problems.

They are prepared to confront their sophisticated audiences as well as delight them.

Discuss with students other problems that might confront creatures of the deep.

But one can also draw a different conclusion-that fixating on population numbers is not the best way to confront the future.

Even action heroes can find themselves foiled by the gadgets they confront.

As humans confront a warming planet, scientists examine the effects of a small but significant change.

As more people confront trauma and come away with severely debilitating disorders, it.

But it's also an opportunity to confront an ever-growing threat to that population: childhood obesity.

What you're seeing below is the game's kill screen, which any player will confront after navigating.

Rangers and wildlife officers are finding they must increasingly confront people with guns.

These are the challenges that global leaders confront.

Bet everyone in his neighborhood hates him but is too afraid to confront him because he gets off on.

He is ripped from his familiar world and forced to confront.

Students confront a world that is increasingly interdependent.

She began to take steps in real life to confront her abuser, and the nightmare evolved through a series of dreams.

It may even help a person improve in sports, enhance self-confidence or confront problems that elude being solved in waking life.

It was inevitable that an era so trusting in the powers of the mind would from time to time confront a mirror opposition.

Cities may well confront a triple specter of climate.

It is so serious that it is a duty to confront it calmly for.

Rossner helped persuade several other journal editors to confront the issue.

Yet the administration makes matters worse by failing to confront it head on.

Little attention is given to the biochemical and molecular conundrums which confront such scenarios".

Dunham revisits her past to confront the consequences of a brainwashing experiment she was subjected to as a child.

Research on autism is only starting to confront that problem.

His first big gamble, deploying the army to confront drug-trafficking gangs, is also looking shakier.

There are a number of different cultures that you confront.

Don't count on the search engines to confront the problem, though.

It can no longer confront the many threats it faces simply by spending more money.

Discuss with students the problems that might confront creatures of the deep sea.

Even if you don't confront reality and deal with it as reasoning adults, reality will deal with you.

Each week, a new time-traveling guest star visits the tavern to confront his or her destiny.

Every so often, though, he tried to confront himself.

Socolow's prescription for the climate problem today is to confront the problem, and take the bitter medicine.

And the government is ready to spend money to confront these problems.

But it's not as if there are clear alternatives to confront an insidious and deadly problem.

Mexico to confront drug smuggling and gang activity.

But the problems take various forms, depending on whether you confront them as a public agency or an ordinary citizen.

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World English Dictionary

confront (kənˈfrʌnt)

—vb
1.	(usually foll by with) to present or face (with something), esp in order to accuse or criticize
2.	to face boldly; oppose in hostility
3.	to be face to face with; be in front of
4.	to bring together for comparison

[C16: from Medieval Latin confrontārī to stand face to face with, from frons forehead]

con'fronter

—n

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Word Origin & History

confront

1560s, "to stand in front of," from M.Fr. confronter, from M.L. confrontare "assign limits, adjoin," from L. com- "together" + frontem (nom. frons) "forehead." Sense of "to face in defiance or hostility" is c.1580.

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