afrontar
/afɾonˈtaɾ/ verb B2- to face, address, tackle, meet, deal with, confront, cope with, handle, bear, manage, (e.g. reality, an issue, a situation, a problem) · Afrontémoslo... Let's face it...
- to defy, to brave
- to afford, to bear (e.g. a cost, a loss)
- disused form of afrentar (“to affront”)
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- afrontar
- Gerund
- afrontando
- Past participle
- afrontado
- Present (yo)
- afronto
- Preterite (yo)
- afronté
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Creo que me falta una fuerza esencial en el arte literario, la impersonalidad, entendiendo por ella la facultad de dominar las simpatías íntimas y afrontar la pintura de la vida con el escalpelo en la mano que no hace vacilar el rápido latir del corazón.
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