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.
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181. Had they seen Saturday's encounter, the Kiwis might have been tempted to catch a plane home.
182. Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton
183. A friendly encounter gave a glow which lasted through the night.
184. At their first major encounter, Emperor Yazdegird came off the better.
185. Emerging from the cave they encounter the masked form of Koquillion, who bids them to fetch the Doctor at once.
186. What lasts depends upon what proves itself in the needs, tastes, and understanding of people who encounter it.
187. For the successful person, a winning attitude means looking to learn something in all the everyday events that you encounter.
188. This ambition becomes more predominant in his character not long after his encounter with the witches.
189. Intimacy is marked by cycles of encounter and withdrawal which ideally involve trusting in absence, as well as communing in each other's presence.
190. There, in the smoky crowd, you might encounter Marlene Dietrich in a backless gown or the novelist Sybil Bedford.
191. One thing I am certain of after this encounter: Nico will not be bidding to retain my services.
192. She longed to encounter some other human presence and could not bear the thought of it.
193. They will need to foresee some of the difficulties the culture will encounter.
194. At home, crying, Howley remembered an encounter with a woman who had just run 10 miles.
195. Within moments of our first encounter, he has whipped out a Photo-Me booth shot of his newborn baby daughter.
196. It amazed the Comanche, who remembered that encounter for generations.
197. They confirm our impression that, following his traumatic encounter with the Czech police, he becomes considerably less talkative.
198. Milling, shut out in his previous encounter with Cal, had four points.
199. A good place to begin is with the encounter of educational psychology and schooling.
200. As they encounter the end, both Cage and Penn are embraced by guardian angels.
201. He believes Dan infected him during a brief encounter six years before, which Dan only dimly remembers.
202. Seven years of mutually mediocre diplomacy and unsteady leadership form the backdrop of Clinton's brief twilight encounter with Putin. Sentencedict.com
203. The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion.
204. Managers who did encounter hostile, judgmental, or disinterested reactions from their bosses rarely initiated such interactions again.
205. There are no tunnels and no low bridges to encounter on the train's journey to Latimer Road.
206. The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
207. Arachnophobia, a form of this bias that is familiar to many people, works in the opposite way: if they encounter a spider, they recoil.
208. Jet streams tend to follow coastlines, along the same paths as the ocean currents which well up and curl around with the Coriolis effect and then encounter a coastline.
209. Since it'll be summertime when you visit, you can encounter almost all of them by boat or kayak, then catch some yuletide rays on the beach.
210. When the cutting edge of human civilization and encounter the evil guns, instantly withered green olive branch in the war and political disputes and fight in this changed world history.
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