Usually means: Faced directly, often in opposition.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. confronted: Merriam-Webster
  2. confronted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confronted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confronted, confronted: Wordnik
  5. confronted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confronted: Wiktionary
  7. Confronted, confronted: Dictionary.com
  8. confronted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Confronted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Confronted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Confronted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. confronted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. confronted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. confronted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confronted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. confronted: Legal dictionary

(Note: See confront as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confront)

verb:  (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
verb:  (transitive) To deal with.
verb:  (transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.
verb:  (transitive) To come up against; to encounter.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in confrontation.
verb:  (transitive) To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
verb:  (transitive) To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
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