confront sb with sth
— phrasal verb with confront uk/kənˈfrʌnt/us/kənˈfrʌnt/verb [ T ]
C2 to tell someone what they do not want to hear, often because it is about something bad that they have done or because it needs an explanation:
I know she's the one who made the error, but I don't want to confront her with it without having any hard evidence.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- predicate
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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