Betekenis van:
confront

to confront
Werkwoord
  • aan het gezicht onttrekken
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
  • plaatsen tegenover
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
  • (rivieroevers, kaden enz.) van een rechtopstaande wand voorzien tegen afkabbeling, uitspoeling en instorting
  • oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"
"The two enemies finally confronted each other"

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to confront
Werkwoord
    • present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
    "We confronted him with the evidence"

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    to confront
    Werkwoord
      • be face to face with
      "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

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      to confront
      Werkwoord
        • deal with (something unpleasant) head on
        "You must confront your problems"

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        Voorbeeldzinnen

        1. I didn't confront Tom.
        2. Physicians must confront ageism
        3. We confront you.
        4. Tom wanted to confront Mary.
        5. A soldier often has to confront danger.
        6. I think it's time for me to confront that problem.
        7. His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs.
        8. The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms.
        9. Human life faces the same alternatives that confront all other forms of life—of adapting itself to the conditions under which it must live or becoming extinct.
        10. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.
        11. In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
        12. In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
        13. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. 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.
        14. Translational research in major infectious diseases: to confront major threats to public health.
        15. fight against poverty diseases targeting the major communicable diseases such as laid down in the European Programme for action to confront HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, in particular: