What is another word for Confronted?
Pronunciation:
[ kənfɹˈʌntɪd], [ kənfɹˈʌntɪd], [ k_ə_n_f_ɹ_ˈʌ_n_t_ɪ_d]
Synonyms for Confronted:
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v.
• confronted • contended- Antagonized ,
- Argued ,
- Bickered ,
- Brawled ,
- Clashed ,
- Conflicted ,
- Contended ,
- Contrasted ,
- Defended ,
- Encountered ,
- Protested ,
- Quarreled ,
- Stood ,
- Struggled ,
- Vied ,
- Withstood ,
- Wrangled ,
- Wrestled ,
- disputed ,
- hassled ,
- opposed .
Other relevant words:
- aerated ,
- alveolate ,
- arranged ,
- cavitied ,
- checkered ,
- chequered ,
- delineate ,
- delineated ,
- depicted ,
- face ,
- face up ,
- faveolate ,
- honeycombed ,
- laden ,
- pent-up ,
- pictured ,
- present ,
- smothered ,
- stifled ,
- strangled ,
- supercharged ,
- talented .
- Accosted ,
- Approached ,
- Awarded ,
- Collated ,
- Compared ,
- Coped ,
- Delivered ,
- Exhibited ,
- Flouted ,
- Fronted ,
- Introduced ,
- Looked ,
- Questioned ,
- Saluted ,
- Submitted ,
- Tackled ,
- acquainted ,
- breasted ,
- charged ,
- confront ,
- contested ,
- demoed ,
- demonstrated ,
- faced up to ,
- fitted together ,
- gifted ,
- matched ,
- pitted ,
- played ,
- portrayed ,
- posed ,
- presented ,
- represented ,
- set against ,
- staged ,
- stood up to .
How to use "Confronted" in context?
Confronted with the reality that their daughter may have been abducted, the parents of Cassandra Passarelli were in a panic. They couldn't stop thinking about her and worrying about her safety.
Now, almost two years after her disappearance, the Passarellis are finally getting some answers. Police have confirmed that their daughter was abducted, and they're charging her kidnapper with a felony.
"The minute I heard that, my whole body just cramped up," says Cassandra's father, Vince. "We knew it was true. It was the only thing that made sense. Now we can finally put this nightmare to an end.
Paraphrases for Confronted:
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Verb, past participle
absorbed, addressed, advised, affected, afflicted, articulated, ascertained, assaulted, assumed, attendance, beset, briefing, broached, burdened, called, case, cast, characterized, checked, committed, complicated, composed, conceived, concerned, connected, considered, constrained, consumed, contested, controlled, covered, decayed, defeated, described, detected, determined, directed, disciplined, discontinued, discovered, documented, dominated, done, earned, eaten, elaborated, embroiled, encounter, engaged, engulfed, experienced, exposed, fallen, filled, forced, found, fractured, frustrated, given, grown, handled, headed, hurt, identified, impacted, impeded, implied, induced, informed, inscribed, involved, known, landed, led, left, located, made, matched, mired, noted, noticed, observed, offended, opposed, outlined, overcome, owed, perceived, pitted, placed, plagued, planted, posed, postponed, predicted, presence, presented, pressed, prey, processed, put, raised, ravaged, realised, recorded, relieved, represented, requested, required, resolved, reversed, ridden, risen, saddled, seen, seized, set, settled, shocked, shot, shouldered, situated, solved, spoken, stricken, struck, studied, suited, suspended, tails, taken, tested, threatened, thrown, thwarted, tied, torn, touched, trapped, treated, troubled, uncovered, verified, versed, victimized, view, witnessed, Accommodated, Answered, Appealed, Appeared, Apprised, Approached, Arisen, Asked, Attacked, Battled, Befallen, Boarded, Brought, Captured, Caught, Caused, Challenged, Clashed, Dealt, Debated, Detained, Discriminated, Discussed, Displayed, Embraced, Emerged, Encountered, Endured, Enjoyed, Examined, Exhibited, Explored, Expounded, Fought, Had, Hampered, Him, Hindered, Housed, Incurred, Intercepted, Investigated, Lived, Lodged, Looked, Met, Mooted, Notified, Plunged, Racked, Raided, Rebutted, Remedied, Repelled, Resisted, Responded, Resulted, Robbed, Served, Tackled, Termed, Trafficked, Undergone, Undertaken, Combated, Compared, Comprised, Contended, Contrasted, Counteracted, Created, Preyed, Probed, Prompted, Pushed, Struggled, Subjected, Stumbled, Submitted, Sued, Suffered, Summoned, Surveyed, grasped, mugged, contacted, countered, reacted, gripped, briefed, victims, positioned, reviewed, HIT, interviewed, briefings, reminded, bombed, laid, combatted, seised, talkedto, spokento.
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Verb, past participle
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