Definitions of Confront [ənˈfrʌnt]

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Definition of 'Confront'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) confront
to face in hostility or defiance; oppose.

2.  confront
to set face to face:
They confronted him with the evidence.

3.  confront
to stand or come in front of; meet face to face.

4.  confront
to encounter as something to be dealt with:
the obstacles that confronted us.

5.  confront
to bring together for examination or comparison.

Etymology: (1595–1605; < ML confrontārī= L con-con - +-frontārī, der. of L frōns forehead, front)

Definition of 'Confront'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) confront, face
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. (verb) confront, face up, face
deal with (something unpleasant) head on
"You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"

3. (verb) confront, face, present
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. (verb) confront
be face to face with
"The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

Definition of 'Confront'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) confront
(of a problem) to need to be solved; = face
the difficulties confronting our college; a country confronted with a crashing economy

2.  confront
to deal with a difficult situation
to confront the nation's water problems

3.  confront
to force sb to talk about a problem
to confront him with his lies

4.  confront
to approach sb aggressively
He was confronted by two armed men.

Definition of 'Confront'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Confront
to stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness

2. (verb) Confront
to put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing

3. (verb) Confront
to set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare

Translation of 'Confront'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to bring face to face with He was confronted with the evidence of his crime.
Afrikaans: teenoor stel, teenoor mek	Arabic: يُواجِه	Bulgarian: изправям (се) срещу
Brazilian: confrontar	Czech: konfrontovat	German: konfrontieren
Danish: stå ansigt til ansigt med	Greek: φέρνω κπ. αντιμέτωπο με κ	Spanish: hacer frente a, plantar c
Estonian: vastamisi seadma	Farsi: رو در رو شدن؛ مواجه کردن	Finnish: kohdata
French: confronter (avec)	Hebrew: לַעֲמוֹד בִּפנֵי	Hindi: सामना करना
Croatian: suočiti se	Hungarian: szembesít	Indonesian: menghadapi
Icelandic: (verða að) horfast í augu	Italian: mettere di fronte a	Japanese: ～に直面する
Korean: 직면하다	Lithuanian: suvestiį akistatą, pateik	Latvian: konfrontēt; nostādīt aci
Malay: berhadapan	Dutch: confronteren	Norwegian: konfrontere, stå ansikt t
Polish: skonfrontować	Persian: رو در رو شدن؛ مواجه کردن	Pashto: مخالفت كول، مخالف كول، مخ
Portuguese: confrontar	Romanian: a se confrunta (cu)	Russian: ставить лицом к лицу
Slovak: konfrontovať	Slovenian: soočiti	Serbian: suočiti sa
Swedish: konfrontera	Thai: เผชิญหน้า	Turkish: yüzleştirmek
Taiwanese: 使面對	Ukrainian: стояти віч-на-віч перед	Urdu: سامن‍ے لانا
Vietnamese: đương đầu với	Chinese: 使面对
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