Definition of confront verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. confront somebody/something (of problems or a difficult situation) to appear and need to be dealt with by somebody. What is to be done about the economic problems confronting the country? I was suddenly confronted by the task of rewriting the entire book. More @Wikipedia
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