[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confront \confront"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. confronted; p. pr.
    vb. n. confronting. f. confronter; l. con- + frons the
   forehead or front. see front.
   1. to stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face
      hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
      1913 webster

            we four, indeed, confronted were with four
            in russian habit.                     --shak.
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            he spoke and then confronts the bull. --dryden.
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            hester caught hold of pearl, and drew her forcibly
            into her arms, confronting the old puritan
            magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
                                                  --hawthorne.
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            it was impossible at once to confront the might of
            france and to trample on the liberties of england.
                                                  --macaulay.
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   2. to put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to
      confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
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   3. to set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast;
      to compare.
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            when i confront a medal with a verse, i only show
            you the same design executed by different hands.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster
see also:
confronted confronting front 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

confronting
     n : taking the bull by the horns syn: braving, coping with,
          grappling, tackling
see also:
braving coping with grappling tackling 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "confronting":
   adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic,
   antipodal, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing,
   clashing, compensating, conflicting, contradictory, contradistinct,
   contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse,
   counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing,
   dead against, discordant, discrepant, eyeball to eyeball,
   eyeball-to-eyeball, facing, hostile, inconsistent, inimical,
   inverse, obverse, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional,
   oppositive, oppugnant, perverse, polar, polaric, polarized,
   repugnant, reverse, squared off

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