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encountersnounpl. of encounter a brief clash between enemies or rivalssurvived an encounter with the school bully at the local park brushes, hassles, run-ins, scrapes, skirmishes arguments, fights, quarrels, rows, spats, squabbles, tiffsbattles, brawls, frays, wrangles encountersverbpresent tense third-person singular of encounterto come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-facequite unexpectedly encountered our next-door neighbor while vacationing in Europe catches, chances (upon), happens (upon), meets, stumbles (upon) accosts, confrontsfaces, greets, salutescollides (with), crashes (into)crisscrosses, crosses, passeshits (upon), lights (upon), tumbles (to)reencounters, remeets bumps into, crosses paths (with), runs across, runs into, runs upon avoids, dodges, ducks, eludes, escapes, evades, shakes, shuns to come upon unexpectedly or by chancewe encountered a host of unforeseen problems during the restoration of our 200-year-old house chances (upon), finds, happens (on or upon), hits (upon), lights (on or upon), meets, pitches (upon), stumbles (on or onto), tumbles (upon) lucks (out, on, onto, or into)confronts, facesdiscovers, strikes, turns up bumps into, comes across, runs across, runs against, runs into, runs upon to enter into contest or conflict withthe troops encountered bands of guerrilla fighters as they made their way across the desert battles, engages, faces, meets, takes on emulates, rivalscontends, fights, opposes eludes, escapes, evadesretreats |