Word Finder - encounter

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A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

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Their encounter was a matter of chance.

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A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.

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A match between two opposing sides.

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To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.

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To confront (someone or something) face to face.

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To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.

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Three armies encountered at Waterloo.

The encounter had frightened him more than he would admit.

The count remembered the wolf he had let slip and his encounter with Daniel.

In Wagner's harmonic style we encounter the entire problem of modern musical texture.

The activities you encounter may leave you hungry.

Dean was happy to move the subject away from Fitzgerald's evening encounter with Lydia.

Quinn will think were requesting something like a séance or spiritual encounter but if we don't humor Howie, he'll be devastated.

This encounter was inevitable.

She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly.

Such was the first encounter of the two scholars.

The runners might encounter any kind of weather, including freezing temperatures, fog, rain, or snow.

Watch a special encounter sea lions of the hair.

Treat everyone you encounter with friendliness and respect.

No mischief resulted from the encounter.

For my action to be free it was necessary that it should encounter no obstacles.

She was still pale after her encounter with Czerno.

As the day progressed they soon forgot about the spooky encounter.

It was by no means his last encounter with Norman traitors, but for the moment the victory gave him an assured position.

He chose Paris, and in spite of the difficulties which he had to encounter before he could enter into possession, was consecrated on the 27th of March 1791 by eight bishops, including Talleyrand.

An unexpected encounter with a southern hawker did that for me this weekend.

We shall also encounter the adverbial superlative and discover how to express " not yet " and " no longer " .

The Malaysian never looked troubled during the encounter which lasted 35 minutes.

Supermarine had recently beaten Blackheath in the Cup competition and this opening tussle showed how much Club had learned from their previous encounter.

Most men go out and buy the first pair of sneakers from the first sports store that they encounter.

But in the first encounter on the 17th of April to leeward of the island, Rodney's orders were not executed by his captains, and the action was indecisive.

The emperor Valerian, who marched to encounter him, was overthrown at Edessa and taken prisoner (260).

However, the younger Stoics endeavoured to meet the assaults of their persistent critic Carneades by suggesting various modes of testing a single presentation, to see whether it were consistent with others, especially such as occurred in groups, &c.; indeed, some went so far as to add to the definition " coming from a real object and exactly corresponding with it " the clause " provided it encounter no obstacle."

It will suffice to recall the Buddha's education in a secluded palace, his encounter successively with a decrepit old man, with a man in mortal disease and poverty, with a dead body, and, lastly, with a religious recluse radiant with peace and dignity, and his consequent abandonment of his princely state for the ascetic life in the jungle.

An age-long rivalry between the houses of France and Austria was the result of this disastrous marriage; and as the son who was its issue espoused the heiress of a now unified Spain, France, hemmed in by the Spaniards and by the Empire, was thenceforward to encounter them everywhere in her course.

As a soldier Tarnowski invented a new system of tactics which greatly increased the mobility and the security of the armed camps within which the Poles had so often to encounter the Tatars.

Not till 1888, when the national army bill was introduced, did he encounter any serious opposition, but thenceforth his position became precarious.

Gone was the casual hiking attire of their last encounter, replaced by a chic outfit, full makeup, and high-heeled shoes.

It's a seemingly arbitrary list that has little in the way of logic - like a lot of things you encounter in here.

Driving and walking along the many forest tracks and trails we'll encounter a very rich avifauna.

But the most savage beast you're likely to encounter here is the owner's dog Zoe, six inches of terrifying Maltese terrier.

If we encounter some icebergs in the area, we'll make time to explore them.

Our deepest encounter with God is sometimes almost ineffable, almost inexpressible.

The new lectionary enables us to encounter the scriptures in helpful and transforming ways.

But despite the result, last night's encounter was a depressing affair, only livened up by three excellent goals.

Encounter Satan's minions and banish them back to their evil realm.

I first began to encounter difficulties when the pressure and workload associated with revising for exams caused me to have a severe nervous breakdown.

In our own personal journey up the ladder of spirituality we encounter obstacles.

With their moderately soft, flexible pellicles, swimming Spirostomum often bend around bits of algae and other obstacles they encounter.

Occasionally we would encounter a party of Olive-backed pipits feeding among the leaf-litter of the woodland.

We always understand what we encounter within a halo of our own future potentiality.

The stage was then clear for the top two Welsh player to have a principality Closed encounter.

Where else, for example, would you encounter the witty put-down of unruly audiences that opens Frogs?

He also has dim recollections of his encounter with Ofelia, the spitting image of the woman in the portrait in the sitting room.

Provide users with information on how to seek recourse if they encounter problems.

In addition, soldiers should expect to encounter numerous venomous reptiles, insects, and plants.

The resulting encounter was possibly the most unusual battle of any of the Jacobite risings.