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Definition
to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or personor:
to challenge someone — often by presenting evidence
- You must confront your problems.
confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
- You must confront your opponent.
- We confronted him with the evidence.
- He also ached for a chance to confront Janza.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- It's high time we leave Ellesmera and confront our fate, whatever it may be.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- He had ignored her until this moment of confrontation.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- While my original plan called for me to confront you right then and there, I jumped to the side—out of the doorway.Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why
- She shut her eyes tiredly, suddenly unwilling to confront her warring emotions.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- He wait until I confront them on it ... then he wanna come crying seniority.August Wilson -- Fences
- I'm going to her house, to confront her on why she ditched me.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- Did you confront your father?Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
- People don't like being confronted with things they don't understand, I guess.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
- flight as escape or confrontation; mercy the unspoken wish of the novel's population.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- I was sure this was it, this was what I'd been waiting for since confronting him in my driveway that day.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
- Even I wasn't sure what I was trying to get out of confronting him about his sexuality.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
- Kyle eventually had to go, and I was never brave enough to confront him about his identity crisis.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
- Let us confront its challenge with confidence, and together give our children the future they deserve.Tony Blair -- First Address to Irish Parliament From a British PM
- Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and confronted him.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The reader is thereby protected from a confrontation too soon with the painful details, while simultaneously provoked into a desire to know them.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
confront = challenge
confront = face (deal with an unpleasant situation)
confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
confrontation = an argument or a hostile situation
confront = to challenge someone or deal directly with an unpleasant situation with them
confront = deal directly with a difficult situation
confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
confront = to deal directly with (regarding an unpleasant situation)
confronted = deal directly with an unpleasant situation with someone
confrontation = challenge