English-French translations for confront

• confronter
  Il fallait les y confronter lentement. They had to be confronted with it slowly.
• affronter
  De plus, la Turquie devra affronter son passé. Turkey must, furthermore, confront its past.
  La seule façon de vaincre le terrorisme, c’est de l’affronter. The only way to defeat terrorism is to confront it.
  Notre Union européenne doit elle aussi affronter ce problème. We in the European Union should also confront this problem.

Definition of confront

• To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
• To deal with
• To come up against; to encounter
• To set a thing side by side with; to compare

Examples

• We should confront him about the missing money.

Related words

• confrontation
• confronting
• confrontational
• confronted
• confrontationally
• confrontable