Encounter

Quick meaning: Encounter is a verb meaning (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.

Meaning

(transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
2. (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
3. (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
4. (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
5. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
6. A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
7. (sports) A match between two opposing sides.

Example Sentences

I will encounter with Andronicus.

Three armies encountered at Waterloo.

Techelles, and the reſt prepare your ſwordes: I meane to incounter with that Baiazeth.

It fits Ioues ſonne / VVraſtle vvith Lyons, and to tugge vvith Beares, / Grapple vvith Dragons, and incounter VVhales.

Word Forms

• encounters
• encountering
• encountered
• encountre

Synonyms for encounter

Depending on context, synonyms include clash, confrontation, brush, skirmish, see, play.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include meet, confrontation, happen, chance, receive, showdown.

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