0 past simple and past participle of encounter
1 to meet someone unexpectedly:
2 to experience something, especially something unpleasant:
When did you first encounter these difficulties?
The army is reported to be encountering considerable resistance.
She was, he says, the most violent woman he had encountered in 13 years as an officer.
As we left the memorial area we encountered a group of German students.
The football fans that we encountered seemed harmless enough.
On my way to the station I encountered a small child, begging.
He was probably the most obnoxious person I've ever encountered.
No discrepancy in the ability to define anatomic structure was encountered for the body or outflow regions of the right ventricle.
Combined stresses are more likely to be encountered in the field than single stresses.
However, the structural similarities encountered on the level of the facts summarized by the final judgements indicate certain basic lines of intra-familial conflict.
