Confront: Definition and part of speech

Confront

  1. v. t. To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
  2. v. t. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
  3. v. t. To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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