confront

To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

Verb

To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
- It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
Synonyms: oppose challenge
To deal with.
- confront a problem
Synonyms: tackle
To bring someone face to face with something.
- We should confront him about the missing money.
To come up against; to encounter.
- Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.

From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).