Two faces brought right up against each other, forehead to forehead, with no way to look aside. Confront is that moment of standing face-to-face — whether the other side is a person blocking your path or a problem that has planted itself in front of you. What matters is the direction: you are looking straight at it.
From the word’s history
confront comes through French confronter from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre: con- 'together' + frons/frontem 'forehead, front'. It literally means to put foreheads together — so 'face-to-face' is not a metaphor added later, it is the word's original build.
confront 經法文 confronter 來自中世紀拉丁文 cōnfrontāre，拆開是 con-（一起）+ frons / frontem（額頭、正面）。字面意思就是「把額頭湊在一起」。所以「面對面」不是後來加上去的比喻，而是這個字原本的組裝方式；front（正面）就是它的親戚。記住額頭那個畫面，四個意思就都站得住了。
Wiktionary (confront ← Middle French confronter ← Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem 'forehead, front'), corroborated by Online Etymology Dictionary
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confrontverb/kənˈfɹʌnt/
- 1
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
- It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
- 2
To deal with.
- confront a problem
- 3
To bring someone face to face with something.
- We should confront him about the missing money.
- 4
To come up against; to encounter.
- Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- 5
To engage in confrontation.
- 6
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- 7
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
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