encounter
/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/ verbe B2En français : rencontrer
- To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- To engage in conflict, as with an enemy. · Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
- To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
He/she/it encounters · Prétérit encountered · Participe passé encountered · Forme en -ing encountering
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- encounter
- He/she/it
- encounters
- Prétérit
- encountered
- Participe passé
- encountered
- Forme en -ing
- encountering
Dans la bibliothèque
Collins would have led them round his two meadows; but the ladies, not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased, probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband’s help.
She continued in very agitating reflections till the sound of Lady Catherine’s carriage made her feel how unequal she was to encounter Charlotte’s observation, and hurried her away to her room.
He again struck his pickaxe into the earth, and encountered the same resistance, but not the same sound.
Then he put out his hand, and encountered an obstacle and with another stroke knew that he had gained the shore.
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