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confront

Syllables: con·frontUK/kənˈfɹʌnt/

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Australia/kənˈfɹɐnt/

confront verb: to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

Verb

confront (third-person singular simple present confronts, present participle confronting, simple past and past participle confronted)

  1. (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
    • It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
    Synonyms:
    oppose, challenge
  2. (transitive) To deal with.
    • confront a problem
    Synonyms:
    tackle
  3. (transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.
    • We should confront him about the missing money.
  4. (transitive) To come up against; to encounter.
    • Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
  5. (intransitive) To engage in confrontation.
  6. (transitive) To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
  7. (transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

confront meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

confront in Tamil

எதிர்கொள்

confront in Marathi

to confront, to stand up to
उभे राहणे ubhe rahaṇe

confront in Urdu

جا بھڑنا, مخالفت کرنا, سامنا کرنا, سامنے آنا

confront in Bengali

মুখোমুখি হওয়া, মোকাবিলা করা
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confront in Malayalam
അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കുക, ഏറ്റുമുട്ടുക, തുലനം ചെയ്യുക, എതിർക്കുക
confront in Kannada
ಇದಿರಿಸು, ಎದುರಾಗು, ಎದಿರ್ಚು, ಎದುರುಬೀಳು
confront in Arabic
وَاجَهَ wājaha
confront in Thai
เผชิญหน้า pà-chəən-nâa, สู้หน้า

Examples of confront in a sentence

  • Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
  • When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
  • It became clear that future defence investment plans would have to confront a riskier world.

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Synonyms of confront

Forms of confront

third-person singular presentconfronts
present participleconfronting
past participleconfronted
pastconfronted

Past tense of confront: confronted

Origin of confront

From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).

Words formed from confront

Words that rhyme with confront

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Questions about confront

What does confront mean?
Confront means to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
What is confront in Tamil?
Confront in Tamil is எதிர்கொள். See Confront meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is confront?
Confront is a verb.
How do you pronounce confront?
Confront is pronounced /kənˈfɹʌnt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of confront?
The past tense of confront is confronted.

Words near confront in the dictionary

  1. confraters
  2. confrere
  3. confreres
  4. confrerie
  5. confreries
  6. confront
  7. confront one's demons
  8. confrontable
  9. confrontal
  10. confrontals
  11. confrontation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: confront (page history and authors); confront (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उभे राहणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); confront (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confront (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confront (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confront (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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