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• three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police.
• the story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
• a chance encounter
• i've had a number of close encounters (= situations that could have been dangerous) with bad drivers.

encounter

1. a meeting, especially one that is sudden, unexpected or violent
• Three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police.
• The story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
• a chance encounter
• I've had a number of close encounters (= situations that could have been dangerous) with bad drivers.
• It was his first sexual encounter (= first experience of sex).
• Flaubert was her first encounter with French literature.
2. a sports match against a particular player or team
• She has beaten her opponent in all of their previous encounters.
3. an incident in which police shoot dead a suspected criminal
• The two gangsters were later killed in a police encounter.

Extra Examples

• I decided not to risk a second close encounter with the snakes.
• I did not see him again, except for a brief encounter on a train.
• I had my first encounter with him two years ago.
• It was a chance encounter that led to the setting up of the new political party.
• The press conference was her first direct encounter with the media.
• examination of UFO sightings and alien encounters
• her early encounters with contemporary art
• my first encounter with my new boss
• the colonial encounter of indigenous craftsmen with Europeans
• the language we use in everyday social encounters
• violent encounters between police and protesters
• I’ve had a number of close encounters with bad drivers.
• It was his first sexual encounter.
• The whole thing was the result of a chance encounter in 1975.
• They lost their second-round encounter against Germany.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the senses ‘meet as an adversary’ and ‘a meeting of adversaries’; formerly also as incounter): from Old French encontrer (verb), encontre (noun), based on Latin in- ‘in’ + contra ‘against’.