FromMiddle Frenchconfronter, borrowed fromMedieval Latincōnfrontāre, fromcon- +frontem(“front, forehead”).
- IPA(key): /kənˈfɹʌnt/
- (obsolete)IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/[1]
- Hyphenation:con‧front
confront (third-person singular simple presentconfronts,present participleconfronting,simple past and past participleconfronted)
- (transitive) To stand or meetfacing, especially incompetition,hostility ordefiance; to come face to face with
- Synonyms:oppose,challenge
It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someoneconfronts them aggressively.
- (transitive) Todeal with.
confront a problem
- (transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.
We shouldconfront him about the missing money.
- (transitive) To come up against; toencounter.
Inter Milan are toconfront Juventus in the final.
- (intransitive) Toengage inconfrontation.
- (transitive) To set a thing side by side with; tocompare.
- (transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set incontrast to.
to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance
- Afrikaans:konfronteer
- Albanian:ballafaqoj (sq)
- Bikol Central:atubang (bcl)
- Bulgarian:противостоя (bg)(protivostoja),изправям се пред(izpravjam se pred)
- Catalan:confrontar (ca),enfrontar (ca)
- Dutch:confronteren (nl)
- Esperanto:konfronti,alfronti
- Finnish:kohdata (fi)
- French:confronter (fr)
- German:konfrontieren (de),entgegentreten (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek:ἐπέρχομαι(epérkhomai)(ἐπὶ + dat.)
- Hebrew:הִתְעַמֵּת (he)(hit'amét)
- Ido:konfrontar (io)
- Italian:affrontare (it),confrontare (it)
- Latin:confrontō
- Lü:ᦎᦹᧅ(ṫuek)
- Maori:whakapātari,tuma,whakahorohoro,whakatuma
- Occitan:afrontar (oc)
- Portuguese:confrontar (pt),enfrentar (pt)
- Russian:противостоя́ть (ru) impf(protivostojátʹ)
- Spanish:enfrentar (es),confrontar (es),salirle al paso
- Thai:เผชิญหน้า (th)(pà-chəən-nâa),สู้หน้า (th)
- Turkish:yüzleşmek (tr)(cope with),göğüs germek (tr)(idiomatic, withstand)
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to bring someone face to face with something
to come up against; to encounter
to engage in confrontation
to set a thing side by side with; to compare
to put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to
Translations to be checked
- ^“Confront” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T.Cadell, in the Strand, 1791,→OCLC, page 159.
