Encounter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCOUNTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to meet
• unexpectedly be faced with or experience (something hostile or difficult)
• meet (someone) unexpectedly
• meet unexpectedly
• To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
• To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
• A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
• A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
• come together
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
• be beset by
• experience as a reaction
• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
NOUN:
• an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something
• a confrontation or unpleasant struggle
• a minor short-term fight
• a casual or unexpected convergence
• a casual meeting with a person or thing
• a hostile disagreement face-to-face
• unexpected meeting
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to meet as an adversary or enemy; to engage in conflict with

Words related to ENCOUNTER

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Words that contain ENCOUNTER

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How to use ENCOUNTER in a sentence

• The contest exhibited few of those enlarged combinations and skilful manoeuvres to be expected in a great naval encounter.
• After a desperate encounter, in which the force under command of Judge Flandrau lost ten killed and about forty wounded, the Indians retired.
• There were some who were very rude and unkind and Sarah soon found many trials to encounter.
• A good omen this encounter seemed! And he walked on, while the dog resumed his watch in the darkness.
• I confess that I would have called him out to the field, and that our encounter should not have been terminated but by the death of one or both of us.
• For the actual encounter under arms, the following inventions are attributed to him.
• He not only stands fast by his work, but he also seems to have spiritual discernment to meet the peculiar difficulties we have to encounter, and there are plenty of them.
• The apparition bid him not fear the immense army of pagans whom he was going to encounter on the morrow.
• There he would encounter Daddy Jacques, who would prevent his springing out of the window into the park.
• How could she? An encounter of this sort was as new to her as Mrs.
• Desmond comforted himself with the hope that Clive had taken no particular note of him, and, if they should ever encounter, would probably meet him as a stranger.
• For ere that hour arrive We will, with chariot and with horse, in arms Encounter him, and put his strength to proof.
• But well beware Our next encounter, for if also me Some God befriend, thou diest.
• Should he await further encounter, or depart elsewhere to find it.
• Another point on which ministers had to encounter stern opposition from their old allies, was a proposal which they made for an increase in the army of 7680 men.
• There being many dangers to encounter on his contemplated voyage down the Yellowstone and Missouri, every precaution was taken that might possibly lessen them.
• As it was, however, he resumed his whistling, and, barely reminded by the spot of the recent encounter, he cheerfully pursued his way.
• They have their selected eating places arranged, know every danger spot and the enemies they are likely to encounter.
• In any case, a great battle was fought, both by land and sea, and the Egyptian army and fleet were entirely successful in the double encounter.
• In fact the few times I did encounter the old associates it was far from pleasant.
• The outposts were not sufficiently far from camp to allow much time for getting under arms after the first encounter.
• If her odd friend and her inexplicable cousin had any satisfaction in remembering a passing encounter, they could have their pleasure of it.
• Douglas is reported to have said that, during his sixteen years in Congress, he had found no man in the Senate whom he would not rather encounter in debate than Lincoln.
• Now, an attachment to Harriet Smith would have nothing to encounter.
• Placing himself at the head of a small body of faithful guards, he rode to encounter his rebellious subjects in the stern strife of war.
• Here you send an astonished rabbit scurrying to his burrow, and there you startle yourself with a partridge, who seems to get the best of the encounter.
• Many a hardship did he encounter, but with rare pluck he persevered in his studies, and at the age of twenty odd years became a mandarin.
• These Indians warned him of the dangers he had to encounter.

Similar words containing COUNT without suffix er and without prefix en

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