Definition of Confronts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of confront) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confronts

1. confront [v] - See also: confront

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confronts

confrontation
confrontation method
confrontational
confrontationally
confrontationism
confrontationist
confrontationists
confrontations
confrontative
confronted
confronter
confronters
confronting
confrontment
confrontments
confronts
confronté
confs
confuciusornithid
confuddle
confuddled
confusability
confusable
confusables
confusably
confuscate
confuscated
confuscates
confuscating
confuse

Literary usage of Confronts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"This country now confronts problem of too great power in the hands of the wielders of trans] tation—they thwart the first principles of our Government, ..."

2. The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke (1889)
"... of Revenue and Statistics—What is a Way-bill—How Disbursements arc Made—The Social and Industrial Problem which Confronts Railway Corporations. ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"ARMED LINER ISSUE Serious War Problem Confronts the President and Causes a Tempest in Congress By the Editor ..."

4. The Twentieth Century City by Josiah Strong (1898)
"The extraordinary situation which confronts us, the crisis of which may be reasonably expected about 1920, demands some extraordinary provision. ..."

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