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confront

English

  1. 🔊 deal with (something unpleasant) head on
    “You must confront your problems”
  2. 🔊 present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
    “We confronted him with the evidence”
  3. 🔊 oppose, as in hostility or a competition
    “You must confront your opponent”
  4. 🔊 be face to face with
    “The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 confrontar to confront
  2. 🔊 encarar to confront, to face
  3. 🔊 enfrontar to confront, to face
  4. 🔊 enfrentar to confront, to face, to stand up to, (a person or force aggressively)

Similar words

face up face face present face accost advance affront alight upon analogize approach appropinquate approximate assimilate await baffle balance balk be imminent be in store bear down on bear down upon bear up beard