confronted

VERB

challenge

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accost defy encounter meet oppose repel resist

STRONG

affront beard brave dare flout front scorn withstand

WEAK

call one's bluff come up against face down face up to face with go one-on-one go up against make my day meet eyeball-to-eyeball stand up to tell off

Antonyms

STRONGEST

avoid dodge evade surrender yield

WEAK

back down

Example Sentences

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When the team confronted Jamal, he said he had never had any involvement in people smuggling, had not been jailed in France and claimed to have been in the UK since 2009.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

Grounded in critical love and thinking, it allows the country’s flaws and failures to be confronted honestly so that the nation can be made into the best version of itself.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026

As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Pope Leo could have confronted the current false binary of unfettered artificial intelligence versus unfettered government control of this technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

“You was a-saying,” he observed, when we had confronted one another in silence, “that surely I must understand. What, surely must I understand?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens