encounter

v.遭遇,遇到,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
encounter (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to meet as an adversary or enemy
b) to engage in conflict with
2.
to come upon face-to-face
3.
intransitive verb
to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly - encounter difficulties to meet especially by chance
encounter (noun)
1.
a meeting between hostile factions or persons a sudden often violent clash - an encounter between the police and demonstrators
2.
a) a chance meeting - an accidental encounter
b) a particular kind of meeting or experience with another person - a romantic encounter
3.
a coming into the vicinity of a celestial body - the Martian encounter of a spacecraft
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
encounter (noun)
a brief clash between enemies or rivals
SYNONYMS:
brush, hassle, run-in, scrape, skirmish
RELATED WORDS:
argument, fight, quarrel, row, spat, squabble, tiff; battle, brawl, fray, wrangle
encounter (verb)
1.
to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face
SYNONYMS:
catch, chance (upon), encounter, happen (upon), stumble (upon)
RELATED WORDS:
accost, confront; face, greet, salute; collide (with), crash (into); crisscross, cross, pass; hit (upon), light (upon), tumble (to); reencounter, remeet
NEAR ANTONYMS:
avoid, dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, shake, shun
encounter (verb)
2.
to come upon unexpectedly or by chance
SYNONYMS:
chance (upon), encounter, find, hit (upon), light (on upon), meet, pitch (upon), stumble (on onto), tumble (upon)
RELATED WORDS:
luck (out, on, onto, into); confront, face; discover, strike, turn up
encounter (verb)
3.
to enter into contest or conflict with
SYNONYMS:
battle, encounter, face, meet, take on
RELATED WORDS:
emulate, rival; contend, fight, oppose
NEAR ANTONYMS:
elude, escape, evade; retreat
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