encountered

Verb

encounter (third-person singular simple present encounters, present participle encountering, simple past and past participle encountered)

1. (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
   • It fits Ioues ſonne / VVraſtle vvith Lyons, and to tugge vvith Beares, / Grapple vvith Dragons, and incounter VVhales.1613, Thomas Heywood, The Silver Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Beniamin Lightfoote […], →OCLC, Act III, signature G, recto

   Synonyms:

   cross paths

2. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
3. (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
   • […] yet when the brother and the sister had encountered, according to the set appointment, none of these impassionedments had been repeated.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
4. (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
   • Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
5. (India, euphemistic, transitive) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
   • Speaking to the media, Reddy said, "He (Accused in 6-year-old rape and murder case) should be encountered. We will nab the accused and will encounter him. We will stand by the victim's family. We console them and will provide aid to the family. We will encounter him (the accused)."2021 September 15, “Telangana Minister says, rapist of six-year-old will be nabbed and killed in encounter”, in Catch News, retrieved 25 Feb 2023

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