RENCOUNTER

Definitions: RENCOUNTER

RENCOUNTER

Intransitive verb

1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.

Noun

1. A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties.

2. A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement.

Transitive verb

1. To attack hand to hand.

2. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RENCOUNTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Arrival

Return, remigration; meeting; rencounter, encounter.

Come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact.

Contention

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Contiguity

Noun: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion; touching; Verb: (see touch ).

Crosswords: RENCOUNTER

Albanian

takohem rastësisht, takim i rastit (rencontre), dyluftim (duel, meeting, rencontre, tournament, tourney). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схватка (clash, encounter, rencontre, scuffle, skirmish), имам схватка. (various references)

Greek 

συνάντηση (appointment, competition, encounter, fixture, meeting, rencontre, rendezvous). (various references)

Hungarian

váratlanul összetalálkozik, beleszalad (run into, to run against, to run into), összecsapás (clash, collision, cope, encounter, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, set-to, shock). (various references)

Pig Latin

encounterray

Portuguese

peleja (action, combat, game, joust, rencontre, scuffle, struggle, tussle), encontro casual (rencontre), encontro (abutment, appointment, chunking, clash, encounter, impact, meeting, rencontre, rendezvous), duelo (duel, encounter, rencontre), disputar (argue, Bicker, contest, disagree, dispute, fight, passage, put up with, quarrel, rencontre, run, spar), defrontar (confront, face, front, rencontre), combate (action, battle, brush, combat, engaging, fight, fighting, fray, joust, rencontre, scuffle, set to, struggle), chocar-se (rencontre). (various references)

Russian 

случайная встреча (rencontre), встречаться враждебно, дуэль (duel, meeting, rencontre). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

susret (encounter, meeting), susresti (encounter, meet), sudariti se (clash, collide, crash, run against, shock), okršaj (clash, fray, skirmish), naići na (receive, run up against). (various references)

Spanish

entrar en choque (rencontre), encuentro casual (rencontre), encontrarse casualmente (rencontre). (various references)

Swedish

tillfälligt möte (rencontre). (various references)

Ukranian 

сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), стискатися (be exposed, be faced with, shrink away), випадково зустрічатися, випадкова зустріч, дуель (duel, encounter, rencontre). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "RENCOUNTER": rencountered, rencountering, rencounters. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: encounter, recounter, rencontre, renouncer.

-2 letters: cretonne, nocturne, renounce, trouncer.

-3 letters: centner, coenure, cornute, counter, courter, current, enounce, enteron, erector, neurone, neutron, nocturn, recount, reroute, tenoner, trounce.

-4 letters: cenote, center, centre, conner, corner, cornet, couter, cunner, curter, encore, neuron, neuter, nocent, recent, rector, rennet, renter, retore, retorn, retune, return, router, runner, tenner, tenour, tenrec, tenure.

+1 letter: reencounter, rencounters.

+2 letters: countertenor, countertrend, nonrecurrent, reencounters, rencountered.

+3 letters: countersniper, countertenors, countertrends, reencountered, rencountering.

+4 letters: countercurrent, counterpuncher, countersnipers, neurosecretion, nonintercourse, reencountering.

+5 letters: counterargument, countercurrents, counterordering, counterpunchers, counterreaction, counterresponse, incorruptnesses, neurosecretions, nonarchitecture, nonintercourses, nonreproductive, perfunctoriness, unreconstructed.

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