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confront
What does confront mean?
confront (verb): to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce confront?
/kənˈfɹʌnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does confront come from?
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of confront?
Words related to confront
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “confront” mean?
to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
Right! That's what “confront” means.
succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
Not quite: that's what manage means.
to apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force
Not quite: that's what push means.
to travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface
Not quite: that's what fly means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “confront”?
feel
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show
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face
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give
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