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▸ verb: (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
▸ verb: (transitive, India) To 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 people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a 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.
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chance encounter,
planned encounter,
romantic encounter,
hostile encounter,
friendly encounter,
brief encounter,
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