Definitions from Wiktionary (encounter)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
▸ verb:  (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
▸ noun:  A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
▸ noun:  A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
▸ noun:  (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (sciences) The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
▸ noun:  (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
▸ Also see encounter

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