Synonym: battle, collide, come across, confront, meet, oppose. Similar words: counter, countermand, counterpart, encourage, county, country, count on, count out. Meaning: [ɪn'kaʊntə] 
n. 1. a minor short-term fight 2. a casual or unexpected convergence 3. a casual meeting with a person of thing 4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face. v. 1. come together 2. come upon, as if by accident; meet with 3. be beset by 4. experience as a reaction 5. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle.
n. 1. a minor short-term fight 2. a casual or unexpected convergence 3. a casual meeting with a person of thing 4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face. v. 1. come together 2. come upon, as if by accident; meet with 3. be beset by 4. experience as a reaction 5. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle. 
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91. I am about to have my first encounter with the sort of backstabbing and intrigue for which investment bankers are Justifiably renowned.
92. It is difficult at first encounter to appreciate how great a step has been taken in adopting this principle.
93. On the dimension of the will, one may encounter ill-will as well as goodwill.
94. The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.
95. I have seen a tadpole heart pumping white, whiter, white, whiter after an encounter with an aquatic leech.
96. The U.S. had won its first encounter with the North Vietnamese army.
97. On the issue of tempered curiosity, we encounter one of the major flaws, by modern standards, of the Presocratics.
98. In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety, went beyond the established manners in a light encounter.
99. But he's much more forthcoming than in an earlier, abortive encounter.
100. If this is true, it points to the continuing failure in providing true encounter in the years before union.
101. They meet at McDiarmid Park in what promises to be a most enthralling encounter.
102. Before turning to his encounter with Gandhi, certain aspects of Irwin's character should be particularly noted.
103. The encounter he now saw as an omen, a shadow cast by a coming event.
104. Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her.
105. Both are about modern paleontologists who encounter groups of hominids thought extinct for eons.
106. My first encounter with a badger, as a lad of 10, was as exciting as I could have wished.
107. The body makes a specific antibody for each disease we encounter.
108. Rebelling against him and going their own way would risk another encounter with the deep.
109. Although the school is virtually gang-free, most of its students live in the Mission area and encounter gang activity every day.
110. When parents encounter this obstacle, they finally get off the dime and have their kids vaccinated.
111. All the same, he appeared a pretty imperious figure on casual encounter.
112. Every encounter with the world was already confrontation enough without the extra burden of blame and guilt.
112. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
113. The only other smell you are likely to encounter that could be confused with badger musk is that of the fox.
114. It was the reporters' first encounter with Bradlee on a Watergate story.
115. These are the books our young children are most apt to encounter when they read on their own.
116. He was a famous painter once more now, not simply a local eccentric to encounter on the beach.
117. The other compelling element of this marine encounter is the sheer physical and imaginative space that such a gathering entails.
118. Drivers on the M25 are likely to encounter fog and black ice tonight.
119. I was not responsible for the chance encounter that allowed the virus to slip into my bloodstream in the summer of 1944.
120. Brooke-Rose's engagement with feminist theory is typical of her encounter with literary theory in general.
More similar words: counter, countermand, counterpart, encourage, county, country, count on, count out, account, encouraging, discount, account for, encouragement, accounting, hunter, on account of, accountability, take into account, developing countries, encompass, mount, haunted, in consequence, amount to, surmount, volunteer, council, counsel, scoundrel, counselor.