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How to pronounce “encounter”
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Pronunciation guide for encounter
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of encounter with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Street Samaritans
And I'm sure you encounter it on a day-to-day basis.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce encounter
Street Samaritans
And I'm sure you encounter it on a day-to-day basis.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “encounter”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
- [Noun]
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
- (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- (sciences) The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
- (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
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