Encounter
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly. To confront (someone or something), notably face to face. To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An unplanned or unexpected meeting. A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish. A sudden, often violent clash, as between combattants
Example sentence: When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
Meet
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)A meeting.the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol \and (mnemonic: half an M)An act of French kissing someone
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: suitable; right; proper
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.To come face to face with someone by arrangement.To converge and finally touch or intersect.To satisfy; to comply with.To French kiss someone
Example sentence: Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.