Synonyms for Confront:

v.
• accost
- pro position
- pro positioned
- pro positioning
- pro positions
- pro-position
- pro-positioned
- pro-positioning
- pro-positions
- ran in to
- run in to
- running in to
- runs in to
- whistled for
- whistles for
- whistling for
• affront
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- dumping on
- dumps on
- gave a zinger
- gave zinger
- give cold shoulder
- give zinger
- gives a zinger
- gives zinger
- giving a zinger
- giving zinger
- hit where lives
- hits where lives
- hits where one lives
- hitting where lives
- hitting where one lives
- out rage
- out raged
- out rages
- out raging
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
• brave
- faced off
- faces off
- facing off
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flew in the face of
- flew the face of
- flies face of
- flies in face of
- flies in the face of
- flies the face of
- fly face of
- fly the face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- flying in the face of
- flying the face of
- out dare
- out dared
- out dares
- out daring
- out-dare
- out-dared
- out-dares
- out-daring
- outdared
- outdares
- outdaring
- standing up to
- stands to
- stands up to
- stood to
• come to grips with
- bite bullet
- come grips with
- go mat
- go the mat
- go to mat
- goes mat
- goes the mat
- goes to mat
- goes to the mat
- going mat
- going the mat
- going to mat
- going to the mat
- went mat
- went the mat
- went to mat
- went to the mat
• communication
- confront
• compare
- held a candle to
- held candle to
- hold candle to
- holding a candle to
- holding candle to
- holds a candle to
- holds candle to
- in spect
- in spects
- in-spect
- in-spects
- matches up
- matching up
- place juxtaposition
- placed in juxtaposition
- placed juxtaposition
- places in juxtaposition
- places juxtaposition
- placing in juxtaposition
- placing juxtaposition
- sets against
- sets side by side
- setting side by side
- sized up
- sizes up
- stack against
- stacked against
- stacked up against
- stacking against
- stacking up against
- stacks against
- stacks up against
- weighed against another
- weighing against another
- weighs against another
• contend
- antagonize
- argue
- bicker
- brawl
- clash
- conflict
- defend
- hassle
- quarrel
- struggle
- vie
- wrangle
- wrestle
• contradict
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- call question
- called in question
- called question
- calling in question
- calling question
- calls in question
- calls question
- counter act
- counter acted
- counter acting
- counter acts
- counter-act
- counter-acted
- counter-acting
- counter-acts
- dis affirm
- dis affirmed
- dis affirming
- dis affirms
- dis claim
- dis claimed
- dis claiming
- dis claims
- dis prove
- dis proved
- dis proves
- dis proving
- dis-affirm
- dis-affirmed
- dis-affirming
- dis-affirms
- dis-claim
- dis-claimed
- dis-claiming
- dis-claims
- dis-prove
- dis-proved
- dis-proves
- dis-proving
- had bone pick
- had bone to pick
- haddest bone pick
- haddest bone to pick
- hadst bone pick
- hadst bone to pick
- has bone pick
- has bone to pick
- hast bone pick
- hast bone to pick
- hath bone pick
- hath bone to pick
- have bone pick
- having bone pick
- having bone to pick
- refuse accept
- refused accept
- refused to accept
- refuses accept
- refuses to accept
- refusing accept
- refusing to accept
- thumbsed down
- thumbses down
- thumbsing down
• converse
- chat
- consult
- converse
- debate
- discuss
- parley
- talk
• cope
- battled with
- battles with
- battling with
- dis patch
- dis patched
- dis patches
- dis patching
- dis-patch
- dis-patched
- dis-patches
- dis-patching
- gat a handle on
- gat handle on
- get handle on
- gets a handle on
- gets by
- gets handle on
- getting a handle on
- getting handle on
- got a handle on
- got handle on
- gotten a handle on
- gotten handle on
- held one own
- held one's own
- held ones own
- held own
- hold one own
- hold ones own
- hold own
- holding one own
- holding one's own
- holding ones own
- holding own
- holds one own
- holds one's own
- holds ones own
- holds own
- lived with
- lives with
- made go it
- made go of it
- made grade
- make go it
- make grade
- makes go it
- makes go of it
- makes grade
- makes it
- makes the grade
- making go it
- making go of it
- making grade
- making it
- pits against
- pits oneself against
- pitted against
- pitted oneself against
- pitting against
- pitting oneself against
- rise occasion
- rises occasion
- rises to occasion
- rising occasion
- rising to occasion
- rose occasion
- rose to occasion
- struggled through
- struggles through
- struggling through
• dare
- call bluff
- call one bluff
- call ones bluff
- dis regard
- dis regarded
- dis regarding
- dis regards
- dis-regard
- dis-regarded
- dis-regarding
- dis-regards
- knock chip shoulder
- knocked chip off shoulder
- knocked chip shoulder
- knocking chip off shoulder
- knocking chip shoulder
- knocks chip off shoulder
- knocks chip shoulder
- made my day
- makes my day
- making my day
- mustered courage
- mustering courage
- musters courage
- run gauntlet
- squares off
- step over line
- stepped over line
- stepped over the line
- stepping over line
- stepping over the line
- steps over line
- steps over the line
- takes one on
- taking one on
- took one on
• defy
- rebel
• encounter
- alight up on
- alighted up on
- alighted upon
- alighting up on
- alighting upon
- alights up on
- alights upon
- alit up on
- alit upon
- bump in to
- chance up on
- chanced up on
- chanced upon
- chances up on
- chances upon
- chancing up on
- chancing upon
- clashed with
- clashes with
- clashing with
- come up on
- cross path
- crossed path
- crossed the path
- crosses path
- crosses the path
- crossing path
- crossing the path
- did battle
- didst battle
- does battle
- doest battle
- doeth battle
- dost battle
- doth battle
- fall with
- falling in with
- falling with
- falls in with
- falls with
- fell in with
- fell with
- hit up on
- hits up on
- hits upon
- hitting up on
- hitting upon
- meeting up with
- meeting with
- meets up with
- meets with
- met up with
- ran across
- ran smack in to
- ran smack into
- rubbed eyeballs
- rubbing eyeballs
- rubs eyeballs
- run smack in to
- running across
- running smack in to
- running smack into
- runs across
- runs smack in to
- runs smack into
- un derwent
- un-derwent
- under going
- under gone
- under went
- under-going
- under-gone
- under-went
• envisage
- re gards
- re-gard
• face
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- am confronted by
- am turned toward
- are confronted by
- are turned toward
- art confronted by
- art turned toward
- being confronted by
- being turned toward
- bits bullet
- bits the bullet
- bitted bullet
- bitted the bullet
- bitting bullet
- bitting the bullet
- copes with
- fronted onto
- fronting onto
- fronts onto
- goes against
- goes up against
- going against
- going up against
- grappled with
- grapples with
- grappling with
- is confronted by
- is turned toward
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- take bull by horns
- take the bull by horns
- takes bull by horns
- takes bull by the horns
- takes the bull by horns
- takes the bull by the horns
- taking bull by horns
- taking bull by the horns
- taking the bull by horns
- taking the bull by the horns
- took bull by horns
- took bull by the horns
- took the bull by horns
- took the bull by the horns
- was confronted by
- was turned toward
- wast confronted by
- wast turned toward
- went against
- went up against
- were confronted by
- were turned toward
- wert confronted by
- wert turned toward
• front
- looks over
- over laid
- over lay
- over laying
- over lays
- over-laid
- over-lay
- over-laying
- over-lays
• frustrate
- cramp one style
- cramp ones style
- cramped one style
- cramped one's style
- cramped ones style
- cramped style
- cramping one style
- cramping one's style
- cramping ones style
- cramping style
- cramps one style
- cramps one's style
- cramps ones style
- cramps style
- dash hope
- dash one hope
- dash ones hope
- dashed one hope
- dashed one's hope
- dashed ones hope
- dashes hope
- dashes one hope
- dashes one's hope
- dashes ones hope
- dashing hope
- dashing one hope
- dashing one's hope
- dashing ones hope
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- fore stall
- fore stalled
- fore stalling
- fore stalls
- fore-stall
- fore-stalled
- fore-stalling
- fore-stalls
- gave run around
- gave the run around
- gives run around
- gives the run around
- giving run around
- giving the run around
- hanged up
- hanging up
- hangs up
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witting
- over come
- over comes
- over coming
- over-comes
- over-coming
- pre vent
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
- render null void
- rendered null and void
- rendered null void
- rendering null and void
- rendering null void
- renders null and void
- renders null void
- upset applecart
• meet
- brushed against
- brushes against
- brushing against
- came against
- came up against
- chanced on
- chances on
- chancing on
- comes against
- comes up against
- coming against
- coming up against
- digged up
- made a meet
- made meet
- make meet
- makes a meet
- makes meet
- making a meet
- making meet
- meet face face
- meeting face face
- meeting face to face
- meets face face
- meets face to face
- met face face
- met face to face
- ran against
- ran up against
- rendezvoused with
- rendezvouses with
- rendezvousing with
- running against
- running up against
- runs against
- runs up against
- touched shoulders
- touches shoulders
- touching shoulders
• oppose
- check
- counterattack
- disagree
- fight
- hinder
- impede
- inhibit
- intercept
- interfere
- meddle
- obstruct
- oppress
- rebuff
- repress
- repulse
- suppress
Other synonyms:

•

come in

•

come out

•

come across

•

pass

•

come at
come through

•

reach

Other relevant words:

• brave

• compare

• contend

• cope

• defy

• front

• imagine

envisage

• meet

• oppose

• resist

• tackle

• take on

go eyeball to eyeball with
go on with
go one on one with
go toe to toe with
go with

• Other relevant words (adjective):

behaviour

• Other relevant words (noun):

battle

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Proper noun, singular
  confronting, face, Faces, confronts.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  face.
- Verb, base form
  face.
Reverse Entailment
- Proper noun, singular
  confrontation.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  combat, Combating, meets, countering, sees.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  afflict, deal, handle, meet, resist.
- Verb, base form
  accommodate, broach, cater, challenge, combat, compare, consider, contemplate, contend, cope, cover, deal, defy, endure, grapple, greet, handle, meet, reconcile, resist, resolve, solve, stop, surmount, withstand, wrestle, Combating, challenges, countering.
Other Related
- Proper noun, singular
  facing.

What are the hypernyms for Confront?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for confront (as verbs)
- competition
  match, take the bull by the horns, pit, breast, front, oppose, play off.

What are the hyponyms for Confront?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for confront (as verbs)
- competition
  meet, take on, play, encounter.
- stative
  face, front, look.

What are the opposite words for confront?

Antonyms for the word "confront" includes avoid, evade, ignore, retreat and surrender. Avoid means to stay away from something or someone intentionally. Evade means to escape or avoid by cleverness or trickery. Ignore means to pay no attention or to refuse to acknowledge someone or something. Retreat means to move away from a situation, place or person. Finally, surrender means to give up on a battle, argument or a competition. These antonyms can often be used in situations where one is not willing to face a particular problem or person, and they want to find a way around it.

What are the antonyms for Confront?

v.
• avoid
- dodge
• avoid an issue
- equivocate
• avoid, dodge
- hedge
• avoid, evade
- weasel
• avoid, get out of responsibility
- shirk
• avoid, ignore
- shun
• avoid; escape
- elude
• avoid; get around
- skirt
• break away from
- escape
• challenge
- avoid
- back down
- evade
- surrender
- yield
• circumvent
- By-pass
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- by pass
- by passed
- by passes
- by passing
- by-passed
- by-passes
- by-passing
- de tour
- de toured
- de touring
- de tours
- de-tour
- de-toured
- de-touring
- de-tours
- detoured
- detouring
- dis appoint
- dis appointed
- dis appointing
- dis appoints
- dis-appoint
- dis-appointed
- dis-appointing
- dis-appoints
- gat around
- get around
- gets around
- getting around
- gotten around
- out flank
- out flanked
- out wit
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-flank
- out-flanked
- out-flanking
- out-flanks
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witting
- over reach
- over reached
- over reaches
- over reaching
- over-reach
- over-reaches
- over-reaching
- pre vent
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
- queered
- queering
- queers
- steer clear of
- steering clear of
- steers clear of
- ward off
• deceive; stretch the truth
- prevaricate
• dodge
- Juke
- Jukes
- Parried
- Short-circuited
- Short-circuiting
- circumlocute
- circumlocuted
- circumlocutes
- circumlocuting
- darked
- darking
- fended off
- fending off
- gat out of
- gave slip
- gave the slip
- get out of
- gets out of
- getting out of
- give slip
- give the slip
- gives slip
- gives the slip
- giving slip
- giving the slip
- got out of
- gotten out of
- juked
- juking
- lurch
- lurching
- move side
- move the side
- move to the side
- moved side
- moved the side
- moved to side
- moved to the side
- moves side
- moves the side
- moves to side
- moves to the side
- moving side
- moving the side
- moving to side
- moving to the side
- pussyfoot
- put move on
- put the move on
- puts move on
- puts the move on
- putting move on
- putting the move on
- shakes off
- short circuited
- short circuiting
- short circuits
- short-circuit
- short-circuits
- shortcircuit
- shortcircuited
- shortcircuiting
- shortcircuits
- skip out on
- skipped out on
- skipping out on
- skips out on
- tergiverse
- tergiversed
- tergiverses
- tergiversing
- turn aside
- turned aside
- turning aside
- turns aside
• drop down; avoid
- duck
• duck
- Shying
- move to side
- shies
- sub merges
- sub merging
- sub-merge
- sub-merged
- sub-merges
- sub-merging
• elude
- am beyond someone
- are beyond someone
- art beyond someone
- be beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- beating around bush
- beating around the bush
- beats around bush
- beats around the bush
- being beyond someone
- gat away from
- gave runaround
- gave the runaround
- gave wide berth to
- get away from
- gets away from
- getting away from
- give runaround
- give the runaround
- give wide berth to
- gives runaround
- gives the runaround
- gives wide berth to
- giving runaround
- giving the runaround
- giving wide berth to
- got away from
- gotten away from
- hem haw
- is beyond someone
- not touch
- not touched
- not touches
- not touching
- out run
- out runs
- out-run
- out-running
- out-runs
- pass up
- passed up
- passes up
- passing up
- ran around
- run around
- running around
- runs around
- staid shy of
- stay shy of
- stayed shy of
- staying shy of
- stays shy of
- steered clear of
- was beyond someone
- wast beyond someone
- were beyond someone
- wert beyond someone
• equivocate
- beg question
- beg the question
- begged question
- begged the question
- begging question
- begging the question
- begs question
- begs the question
- blow hot cold
- cloud issue
- cloud the issue
- clouded issue
- clouded the issue
- clouding issue
- clouding the issue
- clouds issue
- clouds the issue
- cop plea
- cover up
- covered up
- covering up
- covers up
- double talked
- double talking
- double-talked
- double-talking
- doubletalk
- doubletalked
- doubletalking
- flip flopping
- flip-flopping
- flipflopped
- flipflopping
- gave run around
- give run around
- gives run around
- giving run around
- jive
- jives
- jiving
- mince words
- minced words
- minces words
- mincing words
- sat fence
- sat on fence
- sat on the fence
- sat the fence
- sate on the fence
- sate the fence
- sit fence
- sit on fence
- sit on the fence
- sit the fence
- sits fence
- sits on the fence
- sits the fence
- sitting fence
- sitting on fence
- sitting on the fence
- sitting the fence
- tell white lie
- telling white lie
- tells white lie
- told white lie
• escape
- burst out
- bursted out
- bursting out
- bursts out
- cut and run
- cut run
- cuts and run
- cuts run
- cutting and run
- cutting run
- de camp
- de camped
- de camping
- de camps
- de part
- de parted
- de parting
- de parts
- de sert
- de-camp
- de-camped
- de-camping
- de-camps
- de-part
- de-parted
- de-parting
- de-parts
- de-sert
- dis appear
- dis appeared
- dis appearing
- dis appears
- dis-appear
- dis-appeared
- dis-appearing
- dis-appears
- duck out
- ducked out
- ducking out
- ducks out
- flew coop
- flew the coop
- flies coop
- flies the coop
- fly coop
- fly the coop
- flying coop
- flying the coop
- gat away with
- get away with
- gets away with
- getting away with
- go scot free
- go scot-free
- go scotfree
- goes scot free
- goes scot-free
- goes scotfree
- going scotfree
- got away with
- lam
- made getaway
- made oneself scarce
- made scarce
- make getaway
- make scarce
- makes getaway
- makes oneself scarce
- makes scarce
- making scarce
- play hooky
- played hooky
- playing hooky
- plays hooky
- ran away
- ran out on
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- running off
- running out on
- runs away
- runs off
- slip away
- slipped away
- slips away
- slipt away
- stealing away
- steals away
- stole away
- take flight
- take lam
- take on lam
- take on the lam
- take powder
- take the lam
- takes a powder
- takes flight
- takes on lam
- takes on the lam
- takes powder
- takes the lam
- taking a powder
- taking flight
- taking lam
- taking on lam
- taking on the lam
- taking powder
- taking the lam
- took lam
- took on lam
- took on the lam
- took powder
- took the lam
- went scot free
- went scot-free
- went scotfree
- work out of
- worked out of
- works out of
- wriggled out
- wriggling out
- wrought out of
• evade
- beat around bush
- de cline
- de clines
- de-cline
- de-clines
- keep distance
- keeping distance
- kept distance
- laid low
- lay low
- laying low
- lays low
- lead a merry chase
- lead merry chase
- lead on a merry chase
- leading a merry chase
- leading on a merry chase
- leading on merry chase
- leads a merry chase
- leads merry chase
- leads on a merry chase
- led a merry chase
- led merry chase
- led on a merry chase
- pre tend
- pre tending
- pre tends
- pre-tended
- pre-tending
- pre-tends
- slipped out
- slipping out
- slips out
- sneak away
- sneaked away
- sneaking away
- sneaks away
- snuck away
• fake, misrepresent
- fudge
• flinch
- Flinched
- re cedes
- re ceding
- re coil
- re coiled
- re coiling
- re coils
- re tire
- re tired
- re tires
- re tiring
- re treating
- re treats
- re-cede
- re-ceded
- re-cedes
- re-ceding
- re-coil
- re-coiled
- re-coiling
- re-coils
- re-tire
- re-tiring
- re-treat
- re-treated
- re-treating
- re-treats
- with draw
- with drawing
- with drawn
- with draws
- with drew
- with-draw
- with-drawing
- with-drawn
- with-drew
• fly
- Barreling
- Barrelling
- Careered
- Careering
- Fleeted
- Piloted
- Winging
- barreled
- barrelled
- bend the throttle
- bend throttle
- bended the throttle
- bended throttle
- bending the throttle
- bending throttle
- bends the throttle
- bends throttle
- bent the throttle
- bent throttle
- flat hat
- flat hatted
- flat hatting
- flat-hat
- flat-hats
- flat-hatted
- flat-hatting
- flathat
- flathats
- flathatted
- flathatting
- gat away
- get away
- gets away
- getting away
- go like the wind
- go like wind
- goes like the wind
- goes like wind
- going like the wind
- going like wind
- got away
- gotten away
- hasten away
- hastened away
- hastening away
- hastens away
- jet out
- jet over
- jets out
- jets over
- jetted out
- jetted over
- jetting out
- lit out
- made a getaway
- made a quick exit
- made quick exit
- make a getaway
- make a quick exit
- make quick exit
- makes a getaway
- makes a quick exit
- makes quick exit
- making a getaway
- making a quick exit
- making getaway
- making quick exit
- piloting
- ran for it
- ran from
- ran its course
- re ached
- re aching
- re-ached
- re-aching
- remain aloft
- remained aloft
- remains aloft
- run for it
- run from
- run its course
- running for it
- running from
- running its course
- runs for it
- runs from
- runs its course
- seagull
- seagulled
- seagulling
- seagulls
- skied out
- skies out
- sky out
- skyed out
- skying out
- steal away
- take a hop
- take hop
- take wing
- takes a hop
- takes hop
- takes wing
- taking a hop
- taking hop
- taking wing
- took a hop
- took flight
- took hop
- took wing
- went like the wind
- went like wind
- whoosh
- whooshed
- whooshes
- whooshing
- wing in
- winged in
- winging in
• fool, mislead
- circumvent
• fudge
- co loring
- co-loring
- over state
- over states
- over stating
- over-stated
- over-stating
• goldbrick
- Bummed
- Bumming
• hedge
- Girdled
- am noncommittal
- art noncommittal
- be noncommittal
- being noncommittal
- co oped
- co oping
- co-oped
- co-oping
- flip flopped
- flip-flopped
- gave the run around
- give the run around
- gives the run around
- giving the run around
- hem in
- is noncommittal
- re strict
- re-strict
- sate fence
- sate on fence
- shilly shally
- shillyshally
- sieged
- sieges
- sieging
- sits on fence
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
- was noncommittal
- wast noncommittal
- were noncommittal
- wert noncommittal
• idle
- goldbrick
• lam
- gave someone the slip
- give someone slip
- give someone the slip
- gives someone slip
- gives someone the slip
- giving someone slip
- take it the lam
- takes it lam
- takes it on lam
- takes it on the lam
- takes it the lam
- taking it lam
- taking it on lam
- taking it on the lam
- took it lam
- took it on lam
- took it on the lam
- took it the lam
• lose
- am careless
- am humbled
- am impoverished
- am loser
- am outdistanced
- am reduced
- am sunk
- am taken cleaners
- am taken to cleaners
- am the loser
- am worsted
- are careless
- are humbled
- are impoverished
- are outdistanced
- are reduced
- are sunk
- are taken cleaners
- are taken to cleaners
- are the loser
- are worsted
- art careless
- art humbled
- art impoverished
- art loser
- art outdistanced
- art reduced
- art sunk
- art taken cleaners
- art taken to cleaners
- art the loser
- art worsted
- be careless
- be humbled
- be impoverished
- be loser
- be outdistanced
- be reave
- be reaved
- be reaves
- be reaving
- be reduced
- be reft
- be sunk
- be taken cleaners
- be taken to cleaners
- be the loser
- be worsted
- be-reave
- be-reaved
- be-reaves
- be-reaving
- be-reft
- became poorer
- become poorer
- becomes poorer
- becoming poorer
- being careless
- being humbled
- being impoverished
- being loser
- being outdistanced
- being reduced
- being sunk
- being taken cleaners
- being taken to cleaners
- being the loser
- being worsted
- came short
- came up short
- come short
- come up short
- comes short
- comes up short
- coming short
- coming up short
- de fault
- de faulted
- de faulting
- de faults
- de-fault
- de-faulted
- de-faulting
- de-faults
- dis inherit
- dis inherited
- dis inheriting
- dis inherits
- dis place
- dis placed
- dis places
- dis placing
- dis possess
- dis possessed
- dis possesses
- dis possessing
- dis-inherit
- dis-inherited
- dis-inheriting
- dis-inherits
- dis-place
- dis-placed
- dis-places
- dis-placing
- dis-possess
- dis-possessed
- dis-possesses
- dis-possessing
- drop a bundle
- drop bundle
- dropped a bundle
- dropped bundle
- dropping a bundle
- dropping bundle
- drops a bundle
- drops bundle
- dropt a bundle
- dropt bundle
- ex pend
- ex pended
- ex pending
- ex pends
- ex-pend
- ex-pended
- ex-pending
- ex-pends
- fail keep
- fail to keep
- failed keep
- failed to keep
- failing keep
- fails keep
- fails to keep
- fall short
- falling short
- falls short
- is humbled
- is impoverished
- is outdistanced
- is sunk
- is taken cleaners
- is taken to cleaners
- is the loser
- is worsted
- kiss goodbye
- kissed goodbye
- kisses goodbye
- kissing goodbye
- leave behind
- leaved behind
- leaves behind
- leaving behind
- left behind
- lose out
- loses out
- mis place
- mis placed
- mis placing
- mis spend
- mis spending
- mis spends
- mis spent
- mis-place
- mis-places
- mis-placing
- mis-spend
- mis-spending
- mis-spends
- mis-spent
- suffer defeat
- suffer loss
- suffered defeat
- suffered loss
- suffering defeat
- suffering loss
- suffers defeat
- suffers loss
- sur rendered
- sur rendering
- sur renders
- sur-render
- sur-rendered
- sur-rendering
- sur-renders
- take a beating
- take beating
- take count
- take heat
- take the count
- take the heat
- takes beating
- takes count
- takes the count
- takes the heat
- taking beating
- taking count
- taking heat
- taking the count
- taking the heat
- took a beating
- took beating
- took count
- took heat
- took the count
- took the heat
- un burden
- un burdened
- un burdening
- un burdens
- un-burden
- un-burdened
- un-burdening
- un-burdens
- unburden
- unburdened
- unburdening
- unburdens
- used up
- uses up
- using up
- wander from
- wandered from
- wandering from
- wanders from
- was careless
- was humbled
- was impoverished
- was loser
- was reduced
- was sunk
- was taken cleaners
- was taken to cleaners
- was the loser
- was worsted
- wast careless
- wast humbled
- wast outdistanced
- wast reduced
- wast sunk
- wast taken cleaners
- wast taken to cleaners
- wast the loser
- wast worsted
- were careless
- were humbled
- were impoverished
- were loser
- were reduced
- were sunk
- were taken cleaners
- were taken to cleaners
- were the loser
- were worsted
- wert careless
- wert impoverished
- wert outdistanced
- wert reduced
- wert sunk
- wert taken cleaners
- wert the loser
- wert worsted
• lurk; shirk
- skulk
• noun
- Forfend
- abandon
- depart
- eschew
- forfeit
- funk
- journey
- migrate
- move
- proceed
- reject
- resist
- shake
- sidestep
• parry
- En Garde
- fore stall
- fore stalling
- fore stalls
- fore-stall
- fore-stalled
- fore-stalling
- fore-stalls
- held at bay
- hold bay
- holding at bay
- holding bay
- holds at bay
- holds bay
- re buff
- re buffed
- re buffing
- re buffs
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re-buffed
- re-buffing
- re-buffs
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
• prevaricate
- Misspeak
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- dis tort
- dis torts
- dis-tort
- dis-torts
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- mis represent
- mis represented
- mis representing
- mis represents
- mis speak
- mis speaking
- mis speaks
- mis spoke
- mis spoken
- mis-represent
- mis-represented
- mis-representing
- mis-represents
- mis-speak
- mis-speaking
- mis-speaks
- mis-spoke
- misspeaking
- misspeaks
- misspoken
- phonied up
- phonies up
- phony up
- phonying up
• pussyfoot
- Tiptoes
- duck the issues
- ducked issues
- ducked the issues
- ducking issues
- ducking the issues
- ducks issues
- ducks the issues
- play close the vest
- play close to vest
- play close vest
- play it close the vest
- play it close to the vest
- play it close to vest
- play it close vest
- played close the vest
- played close to the vest
- played close to vest
- played it close the vest
- played it close to the vest
- played it close to vest
- played it close vest
- playing close the vest
- playing close to the vest
- playing close to vest
- playing close vest
- playing it close to vest
- plays close the vest
- plays close to the vest
- plays close to vest
- plays it close the vest
- plays it close to the vest
- plays it close to vest
- plays it close vest
- tiptoed
- tiptoeing
- tread warily
- treading warily
- treads warily
- trod warily
- watch one step
- watched one step
- watched one's step
- watched ones step
- watches one step
- watches one's step
- watches ones step
- watches step
- watching ones step
- watching step
• shirk
- Snaked
- Snaking
- lay down job
- lay down on job
- lied down job
- lied down on job
- lies down on job
- lying down on job
- shuffle off
- shuffled off
- shuffles off
- shuffling off
- slough off
- sloughed off
- sloughing off
• shun
- cold shouldered
- cold shouldering
- cold-shoulder
- cold-shouldered
- cold-shouldering
- cold-shoulders
- coldshoulder
- coldshouldered
- coldshouldering
- coldshoulders
- gave wide berth
- give a wide berth
- gives a wide berth
- giving a wide berth
- giving wide berth
- had no part of
- had nothing do with
- had nothing to do with
- haddest no part of
- haddest nothing do with
- haddest nothing to do with
- hadst no part of
- hadst nothing do with
- hadst nothing to do with
- has no part of
- has nothing do with
- hast nothing do with
- hast nothing to do with
- hath no part of
- hath nothing do with
- have nothing do with
- have nothing to do with
- having no part of
- having nothing do with
- having nothing to do with
- hid out
- hide out
- hided out
- hiding out
- keep away from
- keep clear of
- keeping clear of
- keeps away from
- keeps clear of
- kept away from
- kept clear of
- re fuse
- re fused
- re fuses
- re fusing
- re-fuse
- re-fused
- stand aloof from
- standing aloof from
- stands aloof from
- stood aloof from
- turn back on
- turned back on
- turns back on
• shy away, wince
- flinch
• skirt
- Burkes
- Burking
- burke
- burked
• skulk
- conceal oneself
- concealed oneself
- concealing oneself
- conceals oneself
- lay wait
- lie in wait
- lied wait
- lies in wait
- lies wait
- lying in wait
- lying wait
• take to the air, usually employing wings
- fly
• ward off, circumvent
- parry
• weasel
- dance around an issue
- dance around issue
- danced around an issue
- danced around issue
- dances around an issue
- dances around issue
- dancing around an issue
- dancing around issue
- tap danced
- tap dancing
- worm one way out of
- worm one's way out of
- worm ones way out of
- worm way out of
- wormed one way out of
- wormed one's way out of
- wormed ones way out of
- wormed way out of
- worming one way out of
- worming one's way out of
- worming ones way out of
- worming way out of
- worms one way out of
- worms one's way out of
- worms ones way out of
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Usage examples for Confront

He is not to appeal to the mob, nor yet to confront Pharaoh without authority from his people to speak for them, nor is he to make the great demand for emancipation abruptly and at once.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"

G. A. Chadwick

There is fever and plague abroad, insurrection threatens, and midnight disturbances are rife, and she who is to confront these perils is a girl of twenty.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

Knowing these facts, at the proper time, I returned to my native country to confront my enemies.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Confront

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Kirstie Alley
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

Pedro Almodovar
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Barbara Amiel
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.

Hannah Arendt

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