Other forms: confronted, confronts, confronting
To confront is to stand up to a person or a problem directly. Confront him about it, confront the issue, confronted with the evidence.
Confront somebody about something is the pattern for the personal sense; be confronted with something means to be faced with it whether you wanted to be or not. Confronting a problem means dealing with it rather than avoiding it, and that is the commoner use in writing. Note confrontation, which usually means an angry scene; and confrontational, which describes a style and is rarely a compliment.
1verbconfrontTo stand up to a person or problem directly.
“She finally confronted her boss about the unpaid overtime.”
2verbfacedTo be faced with something.
“They were confronted with a bill nobody had budgeted for.”
confront is a facing directly.
Also accepted in games: face
Medieval Latin confrontare is con-, together, plus frons, the forehead or front. To confront somebody is to put your forehead against theirs, which is exactly the posture the word describes.
Medieval Latin
confronto
Middle French
confronter
English, today
confront
Built from
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin confronto, from con- + frons (“front, forehead”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA