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say it: kuhn-FRUHNT
confront is a verb meaning "oppose, as in hostility or a competition". It carries 4 recorded senses.
oppose, as in hostility or a competition
“You must confront your opponent”
“Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring”
“The two enemies finally confronted each other”
deal with (something unpleasant) head on
“You must confront your problems”
“He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes”
be face to face with
“The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for confront come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.