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21 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• encounter v. (Transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
• encounter v. (Transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
• encounter v. (Transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
• encounter v. (Transitive, Indian English) To execute someone extrajudicially.
• encounter n. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
• encounter n. A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
• encounter n. (Sports) A match between two opposing sides.
• encounter n. (Sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people…
• encounter n. (Indian English) An extrajudicial killing or execution.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• encounter n. Ontmoeting, treffen.
• encounter w. Ontmoeten, tegenkomen, treffen.

— English words, defined in French —

• encounter n. Rencontre, abord.
• encounter v. Atteindre, frapper, parvenir, saisir.
• encounter v. Apprendre par l’expérience, subir.
• encounter v. Rencontrer.
• encounter v. Atteindre, frapper, parvenir, saisir.
• encounter v. Apprendre par l’expérience, subir.
• encounter v. Rencontrer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• encounter s. Encuentro.
• encounter v. Encontrarse con.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• encounter s. Incontro.

48 English words from 9 English definitions

activity between clash combatants conflict confront confrontation encounter enemy engage English especially execute execution extrajudicial extrajudicially face face␣to␣face find hostile Indian Indian␣English intransitive killing match meet meeting often one opposing or␣something people sexual Sexuality sides skirmish someone something Sports that that␣is Transitive two unexpected unexpectedly unplanned violent with

4 English words from 12 foreign definitions

abord con par Rencontre

15 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

Apprendre Atteindre Encontrarse Encuentro expérience frapper Incontro Ontmoeten Ontmoeting parvenir Rencontrer saisir subir tegenkomen treffen

11 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

encounters encountered encounterer encounterers encounterest encountereth encountering encounterable encounterings encounter␣group encounter␣groups

17 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

rencounters reencounters re-encounters rencountered misencounters nonencounters reencountered re-encountered rencountering unencountered pollen␣counters reencountering re-encountering close␣encounters unencounterable random␣encounters marriage␣encounters

9 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

rencounter reencounter re-encounter misencounter nonencounter pollen␣counter close␣encounter random␣encounter marriage␣encounter

12 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

coun count counte counter Counter counter- enc NCO !'O!uŋ ter TER ter-

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Nuo OCN ret Ret.

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

encountre

10 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

countermen encounters encountres nonlecture recontinue rencounter renouncest renounceth uncoherent unconcrete

11 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

cotenure countree cretonne Curenton Eurocent nocturne nonerect renounce uncenter uncentre unrecent

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

incounter

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