All 5 Uses of
confront
in
Catch-22
- He was an ambitious and humorless Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who confronted his responsibilities soberly and smiled only when some rival officer at the Santa Ana Army Air Force Base came down with a lingering disease.†
Chpt 8
- 'Maybe we're confronted with a gang, with two men working together who just happen to have opposite names.†
Chpt 9 *
- His paramount concern throughout the entire assault was to keep his dark glasses and false mustache in place so that he might continue pretending he was somebody else and be spared the dreaded necessity of having to confront them with his authority.†
Chpt 9
- Here, briefly, is the military situation that confronts us.†
Chpt 29
- Colonel Cathcart declared with blustering wrath, whirling to confront Yossarian for the first time.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence