Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to encounter
Participle: encountered
Gerund: encountering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | encounter |
| you | encounter |
| he;she;it | encounters |
| we | encounter |
| you | encounter |
| they | encounter |
Perfect
| I | have encountered |
| you | have encountered |
| he;she;it | has encountered |
| we | have encountered |
| you | have encountered |
| they | have encountered |
Past
| I | encountered |
| you | encountered |
| he;she;it | encountered |
| we | encountered |
| you | encountered |
| they | encountered |
Pluperfect
| I | had encountered |
| you | had encountered |
| he;she;it | had encountered |
| we | had encountered |
| you | had encountered |
| they | had encountered |
Future
| I | will encounter |
| you | will encounter |
| he;she;it | will encounter |
| we | will encounter |
| you | will encounter |
| they | will encounter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have encountered |
| you | will have encountered |
| he;she;it | will have encountered |
| we | will have encountered |
| you | will have encountered |
| they | will have encountered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | encounter |
| you | encounter |
| he;she;it | encounter |
| we | encounter |
| you | encounter |
| they | encounter |
Perfect
| I | have encountered |
| you | have encountered |
| he;she;it | have encountered |
| we | have encountered |
| you | have encountered |
| they | have encountered |
Imperfect
| I | encountered |
| you | encountered |
| he;she;it | encountered |
| we | encountered |
| you | encountered |
| they | encountered |
Pluperfect
| I | had encountered |
| you | had encountered |
| he;she;it | had encountered |
| we | had encountered |
| you | had encountered |
| they | had encountered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would encounter |
| you | would encounter |
| he;she;it | would encounter |
| we | would encounter |
| you | would encounter |
| they | would encounter |
Perfect
| I | would have encountered |
| you | would have encountered |
| he;she;it | would have encountered |
| we | would have encountered |
| you | would have encountered |
| they | would have encountered |
Imperative
| you | encounter |
| we | Let's encounter |
| you | encounter |
Verbs conjugated like 'encounter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'encounter'
rencounter,
counter,
encountre,
reencounter,
accouter,
chunter,
encanker,
encloister,
encomber,
encumber,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- meet unexpectedly
- cross paths
- meet
- experience, confront, stand, face
- attack
- strike, battle, struggle
Antonyms
- meet
- depart, separate, diverge, scatter
- attack
- defend, protect, shield, shelter
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”). See: Old French '
encontrer'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] his conversation with the trader, lay in the foreseen necessity of breaking to his wife the arrangement contemplated,—meeting the importunities and opposition which he knew he should have reason to encounter.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Encountering squally weather again in the Bay of Fundy, we tumbled and rolled about as usual all that night and all next day. On the next afternoon, that is to say, on Saturday, the twenty-second of January, an [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] floundering, and straining under repeated cracks of the whip. Carriage springs up, with another bounce,—down go the hind wheels,—senator, woman, and child, fly over on to the back seat, his elbows encountering her bonnet, and both her feet being jammed into his hat, which flies off in the concussion. After a few moments the “ slough ” is passed, and the horses stop, panting; — the senator finds his hat, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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In the course of this day 's journey, as on subsequent occasions, we encountered some Englishmen (small farmers, perhaps, or country publicans at home ) who were settled in America, and were travelling on their own affairs. Of all grades and kinds of men that jostle one in the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in its influence. The trees were stunted in their growth; the banks were low and flat; the settlements and log cabins fewer in number: their inhabitants more wan and wretched than any we had encountered yet. No songs of birds were in the air, no pleasant scents, no moving lights and shadows from swift passing clouds. Hour after hour, the changeless glare of the hot, unwinking sky, shone upon the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as the track of yesterday. There was the swamp, the bush, and the perpetual chorus of frogs, the rank unseemly growth, the unwholesome steaming earth. Here and there, and frequently too, we encountered a solitary broken-down waggon, full of some new settler 's goods. It was a pitiful sight to see one of these vehicles deep in the mire; the axle-tree broken; the wheel lying idly by its side; the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] body can remember, and has been, at times, perplexed with. He could not keep himself from looking at her, and watching her perpetually. At table, or sitting at her state-room door, still she would encounter the young man's eyes fixed on her, and politely withdrawn, when she showed, by her countenance, that she was sensible to the observation.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)