Definition of Confront

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Confront

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

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Confront Quotations

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
Rush Limbaugh

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
Mia Hamm

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Clinton

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
Rudy Giuliani

Confront Translations

confront in Dutch is het hoofd bieden
confront in French is affrontent, affronter, affrontons, confrontent
confront in Italian is contrastare
confront in Portuguese is confronte
confront in Spanish is confrontar
confront in Swedish is konfrontera

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