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All encountered synonyms

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noun encountered

  • brushed — Brushed cotton, nylon, or other fabric feels soft and furry.
  • fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • battled — Simple past tense and past participle of battle.
  • clashed — Simple past tense and past participle of clash.
  • combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • conflicted — unable to decide between opposing feelings or views
  • contested — causing dispute or argument
  • disputed — to engage in argument or debate.
  • frayed — a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
  • hassled — a disorderly dispute.
  • scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.

verb encountered

  • met — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .
  • bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
  • confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
  • detected — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
  • faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
  • found — simple past tense and past participle of find.
  • suffered — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
  • closed — A closed group of people does not welcome new people or ideas from outside.
  • descried — to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy: The lookout descried land.
  • sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
  • underwent — simple past tense of undergo.
  • attacked — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
  • collided — to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact; crash: The two cars collided with an ear-splitting crash.
  • affronted — experiencing an insult
  • contended — Simple past tense and past participle of contend.
  • grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
  • strove — simple past tense of strive.
  • struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
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