| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance meeting |
Synonyms: |
appointment, brush, concurrence, confrontation, interview, rendezvous |
Antonyms: |
avoidance, evasion, retreat |
| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight, argument |
Synonyms: |
action, battle, bout, brush, clash, collision, combat, conflict, contention, contest, dispute, engagement, flap, fray, hassle, quarrel, rumpus, run-in, scrap, set-to, skirmish, velitation, violence |
Antonyms: |
surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
Synonyms: |
alight upon, bear, bump into, chance upon, close, come across, come upon, confront, cross the path, descry, detect, espy, experience, face, fall in with, find, front, hit upon, meet, meet up with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run smack into, suffer, sustain, turn up, undergo |
Antonyms: |
avoid, evade, retreat, run away |
| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, attack |
Synonyms: |
affront, battle, clash with, collide, combat, conflict, confront, contend, cross swords, do battle, engage, face, grapple, meet, strive, struggle |
Antonyms: |
let go, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an aggressive military deed |
Synonyms: |
battle, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, skirmish, warfare |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insult or involve in entanglement |
Synonyms: |
abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, dispraise, dump on, encounter, face, give a zinger, give the cold shoulder, hit where one lives, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
Antonyms: |
appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe |
| Main Entry: | assail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack, usually with words |
Synonyms: |
abuse, assault, bash, berate, beset, blast, blister, bust, charge, come at, criticize, encounter, have at, impugn, invade, lambaste, lay into, malign, maltreat, molest, revile, set upon, trash*, vilify, work over |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical assault |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley |
Antonyms: |
aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military fight |
Synonyms: |
action, assault, attack, barrage, blitzkreig, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, significant contact, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare |
Antonyms: |
truce |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
Synonyms: |
abide, admit, allow, brook, encounter, experience, permit, put up with, stomach, suffer, tolerate, undergo |
Antonyms: |
avoid, dodge, evade, shun |