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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confront
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
confront a reality (=consider or deal with it)
▪ They had to confront some unpleasant realities about themselves.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
directly
▪ Those Chewong who behave in unacceptable ways can not be confronted directly.
▪ The problem can also be discussed in Sunday-school classes or confronted directly in a sermon on the subject of family violence.
▪ The rationalization of modern life, suggest those who adopt the functionalist style, must be directly confronted.
▪ The problem of control by the masses tends not to be confronted directly.
▪ If you suspect that others also haven't read the papers always confront directly on the issue.
now
▪ But his frustration was part of the larger crisis which now confronted him, as it did everyone else.
▪ Their lives were now confronted by earthshaking change, by the arrival of the modern world.
▪ This unthinkable predicament of modernity in the Orient is what now confronts the West in the Gulf.
▪ A single bold stroke can not resolve political difficulties as fundamental as those Mondale faced and Dole now confronts.
▪ We must now confront the rather more daunting problems of differentiating lexical units paradigmatically.
▪ Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
■ NOUN
challenge
▪ To be blunt about it, the challenge confronting Mr Heseltine is how to maintain his momentum.
▪ Perhaps the most immediate challenge confronts Sen.
▪ Given its inherent curiosity, even the simplest mind will exhaust itself devising solutions to challenges it confronts.
difficulty
▪ There are practical difficulties which confront any attempt to fly in supplies to those in need.
fact
▪ Bob Mays had to confront the fact that for years he had been loving some one else's daughter.
▪ Earlier there had been reports that actress Julie Walters was having to confront the fact that her child had leukaemia.
▪ They have been forced to confront two important facts.
▪ Giselle discovers Albrecht's deceit when Bathilde confronts her with the fact that the Count Albrecht is her fiancé.
fear
▪ This time, he convinced himself, he would confront his fears and get on with his life.
▪ I plunk down a dollar and confront my deepest fears.
▪ This destroys your impetus and your courage to confront your fears.
▪ Spider then is able to confront his fear and on the big night, he takes second place in the spelling bee.
▪ As with any situation, facing up to the facts, confronting and questioning your fears can help.
▪ We aim to confront the legitimate fears and aspirations of both communities.
▪ You must confront your fears and doubts and take risks again and again.
government
▪ Cell I illustrates the situation where the government chooses continued hard-line rule and the opposition openly confronts the government.
▪ It is not as if there is a shortage of reasons to confront the government.
▪ The problem which confronted the Government arose out of the confluence of two streams of difficulty.
▪ Inevitably, many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government.
issue
▪ In order to participate meaningfully within the community members of this group must actively engage in the issues that confront them.
▪ The major issues that confront parents with caregivers are rivalries and maintaining the primacy of the family.
▪ But there is one issue that confronts the Grammy Award-winning musician almost everywhere he goes -- much to his distress.
▪ But that was not the only controversial issue confronting Powell's Bureau.
▪ The article illustrates at least three important issues confronting many academic institutions.
▪ Overall, there are several major issues confronting us on the media front right now.
man
▪ Balvinder jumped up and down, punched the air, then promptly confronted the man with whom he had made the bet.
▪ The same man apparently also posed as a deacon at a nearby Catholic parish but fled when confronted.
▪ Within a few minutes, about fifteen members of the white fraternity Phi Alpha Pi arrived and confronted the two black men.
▪ One night at La Maze, a restaurant on the Strip, Bogie was confronted by a large man.
▪ She must confront the man, drive him off.
▪ The brave soldier was alone but stood his ground after confronting the men in the dead of night.
▪ Charles was equally determined to confront the men who had so recently betrayed him.
police
▪ A black man, believed to be in his 30s, was shot after being confronted by police.
▪ An angry crowd gathered, confronting the police, who showed little interest in dispersing them, and began taunting the marshals.
problem
▪ The problem which confronted the Government arose out of the confluence of two streams of difficulty.
▪ The same problem confronts you that does the people that run the subways in New York City.
▪ However, a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease.
▪ The problem confronting software developers remains the high cost of creating and competitively marketing these products.
▪ They were seen as being responsible for the real problems that confront ordinary citizens.
▪ Structure: one of the biggest writing problems businesspeople confront.
▪ Those Volunteers for whom the experience was most meaningful were those who acquired clear insights into the problems confronting a developing society.
▪ Here are some problems that have confronted scientists in the past.
question
▪ It was the birth of his own son that confronted him with questions.
▪ Both sides must confront tough questions.
▪ And you have been forced to confront the big questions of life-Why are we here?
▪ The bank and the fund are also confronted with pressing questions about their ability to deliver their promises.
▪ This last example of a conclusion is lengthy but notice how it confronts the question.
▪ The ongoing comedy of Conservative policy gives Labour the chance to confront the tax question head on.
reality
▪ For the first time Nizan was forced to confront the social reality of the process of schooling.
▪ Doug Ross, who ran the Michigan Department of Commerce during the 1980s, confronted this reality head on.
▪ As a nation, we are right to finally confront the stark reality of needless suffering among the dying.
▪ To confront that reality some sorry, drunken night on the shore of an Arizona lake might provoke any of 100 reactions.
▪ In the very first days and weeks on the job, all confronted the daily realities in being a manager.
▪ But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.
situation
▪ Would you so react to the particular situation which confronts us now, if you were not applying the standard mechanically?
task
▪ These are tasks which confront legal theory and political philosophy together.
▪ One is identification of the specific tasks confronting each of the four learners.
world
▪ I would not for a moment propose we face the same immediate peril confronting the world in the early 1940s.
▪ And that is going to confront the world with a painful moral dilemma.
▪ In the end, the sociology of a world economy would find a world bourgeoisie confronting a world proletariat.
■ VERB
find
▪ Turning, she found herself confronting Jamie Baird.
▪ Revered by many, the institution now finds itself confronted by critics.
▪ With agonising slowness the great gates swung inwards and Jamie found himself confronting ... a bear.
▪ In the end, the sociology of a world economy would find a world bourgeoisie confronting a world proletariat.
▪ He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself.
▪ We now find ourselves confronting a massive pay-back.
force
▪ They have been forced to confront two important facts.
▪ When the time comes for him to write his next report, Blue is forced to confront this dilemma.
▪ Pragmatism sought to force philosophers to confront doubt.
▪ Stacy said the fliers showed the type of mentality the university has been forced to confront since the fall semester began.
▪ For the first time Nizan was forced to confront the social reality of the process of schooling.
▪ Many economists avoid talking about unemployment in public, adopting a rather sheepish tone when forced to confront the issue.
▪ Campaigners hope that the spotlight thrown by the Etireno has forced the industry to confront some of these issues.
▪ It forced me to confront a messy tangle of emotions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The FBI confronted Schmidt with the evidence of his part in the murder plot.
▪ The play is about a woman who confronts the man who tortured her in prison.
▪ They were confronted by about five men, one of whom had a gun.
▪ We try to help people confront their problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At our bakery, when we set up the loaves for baking the next day a similar dilemma confronts us.
▪ At the same time, serious threats to the stability of the infant democracy also had to be confronted.
▪ He spent time with customers, confronted the Power Supply Division and central staffs, and acted swiftly on all decisions.
▪ He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self.
▪ Move his two hundred in behind those fleeing ones, to confront the enemy?
▪ Overall, there are several major issues confronting us on the media front right now.
▪ Their lives were now confronted by earthshaking change, by the arrival of the modern world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confront

Confront \Con*front"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Confronting.] [F. confronter; L. con- + frons the forehead or front. See Front.]

  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

    We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit.
    --Shak.

    He spoke and then confronts the bull.
    --Dryden.

    Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
    --Hawthorne.

    It was impossible at once to confront the might of France and to trample on the liberties of England.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

  3. To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

    When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands.
    --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
confront

1560s, "to stand in front of," from Middle French confronter (15c.), from Medieval Latin confrontare "assign limits, adjoin," from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + frontem (nominative frons) "forehead" (see front (n.)). Sense of "to face in defiance or hostility" is late 16c. Related: Confronted; confronting.\n\n

Wiktionary
confront

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To stand or meet face, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge. 2 (context transitive English) To deal with. 3 (context transitive English) To something bring face to face with. 4 (context transitive English) To come up against; to encounter. 5 (context intransitive English) To engage in confrontation. 6 (context transitive English) To set a thing side by side with; to compare. 7 (context transitive English) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

WordNet
confront

  1. v. oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" [syn: face]

  2. deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes" [syn: face up, face] [ant: avoid]

  3. present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: face, present]

  4. be face to face with; "The child screamed when it confronted the man in the halloween costume"

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Usage examples of "confront".

An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.

For the first time, Adams was confronted with so much that generations of his people had abhorred and rebelled against, and he found himself both distressed and strangely moved.

Of the two, Adams would have less to say, and unlike Abigail, he did not confront Jefferson with his ire.

Instead of confronting the Luftwaffe over France or evacuating Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, Skip had been relegated to testing aerocraft at Biddington Airfield until a chap named Cunningham finally came in and replaced him.

The agents came down and brought them upstairs, where they were immediately confronted by the Calverton surveillance photos.

While one JTTF agent searched his home with Kenyan police, other agents confronted El-Hage at Nairobi Airport.

Today Herbert Marcuse, whose theories have gained new attention as a result of the impressive events of 1968 in France and the nearly universal antiwar and antipollution movements in the United States, feels confronted with the same demand.

Still dazed, I found the copy of the New English Bible and, confronting Beth in the bacchante room, swore on the Book never to have anything to do with Tamar again.

As if watching Luciano playing tug-of-war with the bottles of Barolo wasnt humiliating enough, now to be confronted with her own utter lack of skills in the domestic hygiene department was mortifying beyond belief.

News of the attack on the convent had spread quickly, and Father Berrendo was elected to confront Colonel Acoca.

Captain Bihari sat alone at a desk, confronting a screen live but blank.

As he confronted Marlowe, he swept back the cape in a deliberately dramatic gesture, revealing a black vinyl bodysuit that left his arms bare.

But he had survived, and confronting the Amir of Bokhara should be easy compared to facing and accepting his own failings.

The methods of science, or at least biological science, they would maintain, cannot provide understanding of the mind, either because the mind is fundamentally inaccessible to materialist investigation or because our techniques, while they may be applicable to understanding animal brains and behaviour, fail when confronted with the complexities of human thought, speech and social existence.

Instead, she handed the flowers to one of the ever-present footmen with the same resolve Brenn had used himself to confront French cannons.