confront
/kənˈfɹʌnt/ verbe B2En français : confronter
- 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.
- To deal with. · confront a problem
- To bring someone face to face with something. · We should confront him about the missing money.
- To come up against; to encounter. · Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- To engage in confrontation.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
He/she/it confronts · Prétérit confronted · Participe passé confronted · Forme en -ing confronting
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- confront
- He/she/it
- confronts
- Prétérit
- confronted
- Participe passé
- confronted
- Forme en -ing
- confronting
Dans la bibliothèque
Albert seized them with a convulsive hand, tore them in pieces, and trembling lest the least vestige should escape and one day appear to confront him, he approached the wax-light, always kept burning for cigars, and burned every fragment.
With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she confronted alike Diana’s sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane’s indignant nods and Josie Pye’s malicious smiles.
When his body had been carried from the cellar we found ourselves still confronted with a problem which was almost as formidable as that with which we had started.
Holmes, because I recognized that I am myself an unpractical man and because I am suddenly confronted with a most serious and extraordinary problem.
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