Confront

Definition: Confront

Confront

Verb

1. Oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other".

2. Deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes".

3. Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; ""We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; An enormous dilemma faces us".

4. Be face to face with; "The child screamed when it confronted the man in the halloween costume".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confront" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Confront \Con*front"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Confronted; present participle verb or noun Confronting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Confront

Comparison

Verb: compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side, juxtapose; (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance.

Courage

Verb: be courageous; Adjective: dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy.

Evidence

Adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses, confront witnesses.

Front

Verb: be in front, stand in front; Adjective: front, face, confront; bend forwards; come to the front, come to the fore.

Opposition

Verb: oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand; (resist); control; (restrain); hinder; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.

Resistance

Breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent; face, confront, grapple with; show a bold front; (courage); present a front; make a stand, take one's stand.

Crosswords: Confront

But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, was the desire to confront him. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

You dared come here to confront me! (The Secret of Monkey Island; writing credit: Orson Scott Card; Ron Gilbert)

When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill 'em deader than hell! (Fire Birds; writing credit: Step Tyner; John K. Swensson)

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Books

• Caring Enough to Confront (reference)

• Conflict Management: The Courage to Confront (reference)

• Men Confront Pornography (reference)

• Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (reference)

• Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) (reference)

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Free abortion on demand : every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother : confront Ottawa Feb. 13. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

As new types of cells are explored as treatments for a variety of diseases, scientists will confront and conquer new immunologic barriers. (references)

Infectious agents that get past the nonspecific barriers must confront specific weapons tailored just for them. These include both antibodies and cells. (references)

The failure so far to produce a definitive therapy for any form of muscular dystrophy reflects the difficulty of the problems that we must confront to cure these diseases. (references)

Business

Waste represents one of the most serious problems Italy must confront and has been recognized as a top priority by the Government. (references)

Questions of taxation of electronic transactions, and of import duties on such transactions when they cross international boundaries, may be the most difficult and potentially troubling issues that governments must confront as e-Commerce grows. (references)

Children

Namibia

Disability issues received greater public attention than in previous years, with wider press coverage of the human rights problems that confront persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Panama

The Government and public figures make frequent use of libel and disrespect for authority laws to confront and attempt to intimidate journalists whom they allege are "irresponsible." There is an active and often adversarial press and a broad range of print and electronic media outlets, including newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and domestic and foreign cable stations. (references)

Discrimination

Bangladesh

Women, children, minority groups, and persons with disabilities often confront social and economic disadvantages. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Higher operating costs such as rent and imported goods, however, still confront franchise operators. (references)

Nigeria

Choosing a Nigerian partner wisely can be the most critical decision any potential investor may confront. (references)

Sri Lanka

Most other producers have not yet shown many signs of making necessary changes to confront the global competition. (references)

Human Rights

Grenada

The accused has the right to confront his accuser. (references)

Tuvalu

The right to confront witnesses, present evidence, and appeal convictions is provided by law. (references)

Benin

A defendant also has the right to confront witnesses and to have access to government-held evidence. (references)

Minorities

Mauritania

Ethnic minorities and low-caste individuals among all ethnic groups confront societal discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Pakistan

Tensions with India, corruption, religious sectarianism, and political uncertainty are among the many challenges that confront this government. (references)

Colombia

Many observers maintain that government action to combat paramilitarism has been inadequate, and in the past security forces regularly failed to confront paramilitary groups. (references)

Political Rights

Dominican Republic

Women and minorities confront no serious legal impediments to political participation; however, the percentage of women and minorities in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references)

Trade

Russia

Limited choices and difficult tradeoffs confront companies choosing a bank in Russia. (references)

Women

Ecuador

Many rapes are not reported due to the victims' reluctance to confront the perpetrators. (references)

Worker Rights

Switzerland

In order to confront modern forms of trafficking in women, especially via the Internet, the Federal police have increased the number of their agents since 1999. In 1998 the Government institutionalized an exchange of information on trafficking in persons with NGO's. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "confront": confront smb. with ♦ confront smb. with smth. ♦ confront with ♦ confront witnesses ♦ right to confront accusors. Additional references.

Albanian

përballoj (beard, breast, cope, cope with, cover, envisage, face, front, outride, outstay, reckon with, stick out, stick to, wear, withstand), krahasoj (check, compare, contrast, equalize, like, liken, mate, sample, weigh up), i kundërvihem (antagonize, buck, censure, discourage, stand up to), dal përballë, ballafaqoj (contrast, juxtapose, match). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قارن (associate, compare, contrast, coupling, draw an analogy, liken, match, parallel, unite with), ‏قابل (accepting, accessible, agreeing, come upon, consenting, encounter, face, meet, run across, subtend), ‏واجه (be faced with, be facing, brave, cope, encounter, experience, face, head, manage, meet, pull faces, shoulder, square, stand up, stand up to), ‏تحدى (affront, be provoked, be taunted, beard, brave, challenge, dare, defy, fly in the face of, outface, pick a quarrel, quarrel, take on), ‏جابه (set one's face against). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сравнявам (collate, compare, contrast, liken, parallel, put together), стоя срещу, правя очна ставка, посрещам смело. (various references)

Chinese 

面對 (face), 面对 (Confronted, Confronting, Faced). (various references)

Czech

èelit (brave, counter, face, make head, meet, oppose). (various references)

Dutch

het hoofd bieden (face). (various references)

Esperanto

malcedi, kontraŭstari (stand up to, withstand), fronti (face), alfronti (face). (various references)

Faeroese

venda sær ímóti (face). (various references)

Farsi 

مواجهه دادن , روبروشدن با. (various references)

Finnish

kuulustella vastakkain. (various references)

French

affronter. (various references)

German

konfrontieren, gegenüberstellen (compare, confront with, contrast, oppose, set against). (various references)

Greek 

αντικρίζω (face, outface), αντιμετωπίζω (breast, come up against, cope, cope with, dare, encounter, envisage, face, face up to, front, tackle, weather). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעמת (compare, parallel, set off), לעמו�" בפ� י (be faced with, envisage, resist, stand up to), ל�"תעמת. (various references)

Hungarian

szembeszáll (baulk, breast, durst, fly in the face of, militate, outbrave, outdare, stand up to, to antagonize, to balk, to brave, to breast, to confront, to dare, to fly in the face of, to front, to outbrave, to stand up against, to stick up to, to try a fall with sy), szembesít (to confront), ellenálló (repellent, resistant, resister, stand up to, stubborn, tenacious, withstand), összeütközik (bump, collide, conflict, crash, hurtle, impinge, to bump, to cannon, to clash, to collide, to conflict, to crash, to crash into sg, to hurtle, to smash). (various references)

Indonesian

berhadapan muka. (various references)

Italian

opporsi a (be opposed, counter, oppose, stand up to, withstand), far fronte a (face, stand up to, withstand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"面する (to confront, to face), �"たる (to be hit, to be successful, to face confront), 向かい合わせる (to be opposite to, to confront, to face), 対する (to confront, to face, to oppose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいする (to confront, to face, to oppose), むかいあわせる (to be opposite to, to confront, to face), とうめ�"する (to confront, to face). (various references)

Korean 

대결하십시�". (various references)

Manx

shassoo eddin ry eddin, shass eddin ry eddin rish. (various references)

Pig Latin

onfrontcay

Polish

przeciwstawiać się. (various references)

Portuguese

enfrentar (affront, beard, breast, confront with, encounter, envisage, face, front, obviate, outbrave, stand up to). (various references)

Romanian

confrunta (collate, compare, contrast), alãtura (adjoin, annex, approach, collate, compare, enclose, join, juxtapose), înfrunta (beard, brave, breast, dare, defy, face, front, head, meet, outbrave, outdare, scoff, weather). (various references)

Russian 

стоять лицом к лицу, сопоставлять (compare, juxtapose, match), артачиться (baulk, persist, resist, stand up to, withstand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suočiti (affront), konfrontirati. (various references)

Spanish

oponerse (antagonize, counter, demur, go against, object, oppose, resist, stand up to, take exception to, withstand). (various references)

Swedish

konfrontera. (various references)

Turkish

yüzleştirmek, yüz yüze getirmek, karşılaştırmak (balance, check, check against, class with, collate, compare, confront smb. with, contrast, crosscheck, match, parallel, set against), karşı koymak (bear against, contest, counter, counteract, counterwork, demur, dispute, face, face up to, fend, fight back, offer resistance, oppugn, refuse, resist, set against, stand, stand out, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, withstand). (various references)

Ukrainian

стояти навпроти, протистояти (countervail, oppose, resist, withstand), порівнювати (balance, collate, compare, contrast, weigh). (various references)

com-. (various references)

confrontare. (various references)

afronter, encountrer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "confront": confrontal, confrontals, confrontation, confrontational, confrontationist, confrontationists, confrontations, confronted, confronter, confronters, confronting, confronts. (additional references)

Words containing "confront": nonconfrontation, nonconfrontational, nonconfrontations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confront" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canfront, Cenfrith, cofront, conforrt, confron, Confronti, Conron. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fronton.

-2 letters: croton.

-3 letters: conto, croft, croon, front.

-4 letters: coft, conn, coof, coon, coot, corf, corn, font, foot, fort, noon, onto, roof, root, roto, toon, torc, torn, toro.

-5 letters: con, coo, cor, cot, fon, for, fro, noo, nor, not, oft, oot, orc, ort, roc, rot, ton, too, tor.

+1 letter: confronts, nonfactor.

+2 letters: confrontal, confronted, confronter, nonfactors, oceanfront.

+3 letters: confrontals, confronters, confronting, fornication, oceanfronts.

+4 letters: confectioner, confirmation, conformation, fornications, inconformity, noncolorfast, unconformity.

+5 letters: confectionary, confectioners, confectionery, confederation, configuration, confirmations, conflagration, conformations, confrontation, cornification, fractionation, nonconformist, nonconformity, overconfident, unforthcoming.