encounter
$ \mathrm{encounter}^1 /ɪnˈkaʊntə(r)/
We encountered a number of difficulties in the first week.
The report details the problems encountered by families in this situation.
I had never encountered such resistance before.
She was the most remarkable woman he had ever encountered.
Plant scientists first encountered the phenomenon in the 1930s.
Collocations
adverb
noun
verb + encounter
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$ \mathrm{encounter}^2 /ɪnˈkaʊntə(r)/
noun
a chance encounter
encounter with somebody/something Three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police.
Flaubert was her first encounter with French literature.
encounter between A and B The story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
I've had a number of close encounters (= situations that could have been dangerous) with bad drivers.
It was his first sexual encounter (= first experience of sex).
She has beaten her opponent in all of their previous encounters.
They lost their second-round encounter against Germany.
3 (Indian English) an incident in which police shoot dead a suspected criminal
The two gangsters were later killed in a police encounter.
Collocations
adjective
verb + encounter
encounter + verb
preposition
Word Origin
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