confront
confront is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advance
- advanced
- ahead
- anterior
- anteriority
- beak
- before
- bend
- bow
- brow
- coin
- come
- countenance
- disc
- disk
- divine
- est
- facade
- face
- facia
- first
- fore
- foreground
- forehead
- foremost
- forepart
- forwards
- frons
- front
- frontage
- frontal
- frontispiece
- guard
- imago
- indices
- jib
- lee
- line
- medal
- metoposcopy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is confront.
- What is to put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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