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Noun encounter has 4 senses
- brush, clash, encounter, skirmish - a minor short-term fight
--1 is a kind of fight, fighting, combat, scrap
--1 has particulars: contretemps
- meeting, encounter - a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"
--2 is a kind of convergence
--2 has particulars: conjunction, alignment
- encounter, coming upon - a casual meeting with a person of thing
--3 is a kind of joining, connection, connexion
- confrontation, encounter, showdown, face-off - a hostile disagreement face-to-face
--4 is a kind of disagreement
Verb encounter has 5 senses
- meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- find, happen, chance, bump, encounter - come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "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"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- run into, encounter - be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
--3 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- meet, encounter, receive - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
--4 is one way to have, experience
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- meet, encounter, play, take on - contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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