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CONFRONT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary Meaning of confront in English confront verb [ T ] uk Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio / kənˈfrʌnt / us Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio / kənˈfrʌnt / Add to word list Add to word list C2 to face , meet , or deal with a difficult situation or person : As she left the court , she was confronted by angry crowds who tried to block her way. It's an issue we'll have to confront at some point , no matter how unpleasant it is. I thought I would stay calm , but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera , I got very nervous . She was confronted by a man wielding a knife . We were confronted with a lot of problems when we tried to buy a house in Germany. He confronted his illness with characteristic bravery . She decided to confront the burglars . The police were confronted by crowds of rioters. Dealing with things or people addressable approach attack attend to someone/something phrasal verb be all over it idiom beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom bed grip handle have it out with someone idiom hold hold on idiom I/I've got this idiom ill-prepared square take (something) over phrasal verb take something as it comes idiom tend to someone/something phrasal verb to get a handle on something idiom to have a handle on something idiom See more results » Phrasal verb confront someone with something (Definition of confront from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) confront | American Dictionary confront verb [ T ] us Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio / kənˈfrʌnt / Add to word list Add to word list to deal with a difficult problem , situation , or person : He forced the country to confront the issue of deforestation . When I took office , I was confronted with new guidelines . Becca will have to confront some frightening truths about this disease . To confront someone is to meet with a person with whom you disagree or whom you will accuse of something: I had to confront him about the damage to the car . (Definition of confront from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of confront confront It is usually bothersome to be confronted with statements about the supposed universal nature of a particular linguistic phenomenon. From the Cambridge English Corpus Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices. From the Cambridge English Corpus But even when we have such information of partial effects, we confront the difficulty of adding up all partial effects. From the Cambridge English Corpus To grab hold of the certainty of experience, knowledge, or sensation is often difficult when confronting both sound and memory. From the Cambridge English Corpus All these cases, however, were resolved by eliciting confessions from the suspects after confronting them with the evidence. From the Cambridge English Corpus Like a message in a bottle, it forces the reader to journey across time, to confront an unmediated image of the eighteenth-century past. From the Cambridge English Corpus This represented a dramatic moment of instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change. From the Cambridge English Corpus The first volume was published in 1907 and now we are confronted with the eighth. From the Cambridge English Corpus He confronts their epistemological incapacity with the religious point of view based on the authority of revelation. From the Cambridge English Corpus Informal workshops for police and youth were likewise arranged in order to foster awareness of the issues and concerns confronting each side. From the Cambridge English Corpus An appreciation of narrative, however, should merely be an issue of confronting existing preconceptions. From the Cambridge English Corpus They completely lack any apparatus suited to confronting phenomena of this order. From the Cambridge English Corpus A further problem confronting all three of these initiatives has been that of external assistance. From the Cambridge English Corpus When employers confronted unions directly, employers, especially industrial employers, generally won. From the Cambridge English Corpus This makes a person more prone to attend to the situation confronted and to retain the information about it. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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Translations of confront in Chinese (Traditional) 面對，面臨, 遭遇, 直面，正視… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 面对，面临, 遭遇, 直面，正视… See more in Spanish afrontar, enfrentar, encarar… See more in Portuguese confrontar, enfrentar… See more in Marathi in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish सामना करणे… See more karşılaşmak, yüz yüze gelmek, yüzleş(tir)mek… See more confronter, faire face à, affronter… See more 直面（ちょくめん）する, 立（た）ち向（む）かう, 白状（はくじょう）させる… See more confronteren… See more ஒரு கடினமான சூழ்நிலையை அல்லது நபரை எதிர்கொள்ள, சந்திக்க அல்லது சமாளிக்க… See more (किसी विकत परिस्थिति या व्यक्ति के) सम्मुख होना, मुकाबला करना… See more સામનો કરવો… See more stå ansigt til ansigt med, konfrontere… See more konfrontera, möta [ansikte mot ansikte]… See more berhadapan, menghadapi… See more konfrontieren, sich gegenüberstehen… See more konfrontere, stå ansikt til ansikt med, stå overfor… See more سامنا کرنا یا سامنا ہونا, مقابل ہونا, مقابلہ کرنا… See more стояти віч-на-віч перед, відбивати удар, чинити опір… See more ఎదుర్కోవడం… See more মুখোমুখি… See more konfrontovat, čelit, stát před (čím)… See more menghadapi, melawan… See more เผชิญหน้า… See more đương đầu với, đương đầu… See more przedstawiać, konfrontować, zagrodzić drogę… See more Need a translator? 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