Word Finder - confronts

definition

To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with

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We should confront him about the missing money.

synonyms

• challenge
• oppose

definition

To deal with.

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To something bring face to face with.

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To come up against; to encounter.

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To engage in confrontation.

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To set a thing side by side with; to compare.

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To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

But he's called away after his stepson, Evan, confronts a school bully with a tranquiliser gun stolen from Danny's cupboard.

Kenyon Confronts, and Panorama are two programs which claim to expose wrong doings in racing.

Kaunitz confronts Candy, and in the ensuing fracas Candy insults the German Army.

Now, mere geographical considerations, taken from the situation and configuration of the islands of the so-called Indian or Malay Archipelago, would indicate that they extended in an unbroken series from the shores of the Strait of Malacca to the southern coast of New Guinea, which confronts that of north Australia in Torres Strait, or even farther to the eastward.

About eighty-five families are generally recognized; the difficulty that confronts the zoologists is the arrangement of these families in "superfamilies" or "sub-orders."

The real situation that confronts us is not an unbroken tradition of apostolic eye-witnesses, incapable of re-statement with any hope of ecclesiastical acceptance, except by another apostolic eye-witness.

The fundametal difficulty which confronts those who would distinguish between pleasure and eudaemonia is that all pleasure is ultimately a mental phenomenon, whether it be roused by food, music, doing a moral action or committing a theft.

As something like 90% 'of the days in the year have, during the course of centuries, been allotted to some saint or other, it is easy to see how this section of the Breviary has encroached upon the Proprium de Tempore, and this is the chief problem that confronts any who are concerned for a revision of the Breviary.

In this horrifying denouement resulting from the clash of multiple perspectives, the audience confronts the dead, wounded, and defiant.

It confronts serious issue of AIDS such as safer sex, combination therapies, survivor guilt and returning to work.

When he confronts the villain, the man commits suicide.

Thus this saturnine man confronts an environment that is not seen by him as peaceful.

At the appointed time, the group confronts the addict with their viewpoints as the session enfolds.

The tween-friendly sitcom confronts issues that range from the funny to the serious with a feisty sense of humor.

A natural born leader, Aries approaches life's challenges with the idea that he will win and master any situation which confronts him.

When Victor confronts Mary Jane (aka Patty) for all her misdeeds, she shoots him and leaves him on his deathbed.

He considers unleashing his dad on the two, but confronts his roommate privately instead.

She confronts her mother's death in one episode and goes out on a blind date on another, so there are big differences from one episode to another.

He must train as a Knight under a wizened elder, losing first one guide and then another before he confronts his destiny, and the dark reality that his greatest enemy is his father.

This episode brings the Star Wars saga to a close when Luke confronts his father Darth Vader one last time in a duel.