DICTOMETER

ENCOUNTER

(encounter, encuentro, sammenstøt)

1. Synonyms:
   • Brush
   • Clash
   • Encounter
   • Skirmish
   Definitions:
   • a minor short-term fight
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Meeting
   • Encounter
   Definitions:
   • a casual or unexpected convergence
   Examples:
   • He still remembers their meeting in Paris
   • There was a brief encounter in the hallway
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Encounter
   • Coming upon
   Definitions:
   • a casual meeting with a person or thing
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Confrontation
   • Encounter
   • Showdown
   • Face-off
   Definitions:
   • a hostile disagreement face-to-face
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Meet
   • Run into
   • Encounter
   • Run across
   • Come across
   • See
   Definitions:
   • come together
   Examples:
   • I'll probably see you at the meeting
   • How nice to see you again!
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Find
   • Happen
   • Chance
   • Bump
   • Encounter
   Definitions:
   • come upon, as if by accident
   • meet with
   Examples:
   • We find this idea in Plato
   • I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
   • She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Run into
   • Encounter
   Definitions:
   • be beset by
   Examples:
   • The project ran into numerous financial difficulties
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Meet
   • Encounter
   • Receive
   Definitions:
   • experience as a reaction
   Examples:
   • My proposal met with much opposition
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Meet
   • Encounter
   • Play
   • Take on
   Definitions:
   • contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
   Examples:
   • Princeton plays Yale this weekend
   • Charlie likes to play Mary