encounter
IPA: ɪnkˈaʊntɝ
noun
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
- (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
verb
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- (transitive, India) To execute someone extrajudicially.
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Examples of "encounter" in Sentences
- I encountered such obduracy.
- Miraculously, she survived the encounter.
- The protagonists encounter them at the gate.
- The encounters are brief but uncommonly vivid.
- Zombies are encountered in the Spooky chapter.
- In the sewers, Hundred encounters an automaton.
- The encounter between biochemistry and genetics.
- It is frequently encountered in the west of the state.
- Cerise and Nightcrawler then encountered the Knight Errant.
- It was but one of the harrowing experiences that they encountered.
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