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{
"term": "encounter",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "encounter",
"heSheIt": "encounters"
},
"pastSimple": "encountered",
"pastParticiple": "encountered",
"ingForm": "encountering"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to experience something, especially something unpleasant or difficult, while you are trying to do something else",
"sensetop": "encounter something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We **encountered** a number of **difficulties **in the first week."
},
{
"text": "The report details the **problems encountered** by families in this situation."
},
{
"text": "I had never encountered such resistance before."
}
],
"synonyms": "meet (8), run into",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["commonly", "frequently", "often"],
"verb + encounter": ["be likely to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to meet somebody, or discover or experience something, especially somebody/something new, unusual or unexpected",
"sensetop": "encounter somebody/something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was the most remarkable woman he had ever encountered."
},
{
"text": "Plant scientists first encountered the phenomenon in the 1930s."
},
{
"text": "an idea I first encountered when I was in the army"
},
{
"text": "Researchers at the isolated Arctic outpost encounter a creature from outer space."
},
{
"text": "Walruses were commonly encountered in the Shetland Islands until quite recently."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["commonly", "frequently", "often"],
"verb + encounter": ["be likely to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntə(r)/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encounter__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntəz/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encounters__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntəd/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encountered__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntərɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encountering__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntər/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encounter__us_5.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntərz/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encounters__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntərd/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encountered__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkaʊntərɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/encounter/encountering__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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’."
}