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      "phonetic": [
        "ɪnˈkaʊntər",
        "ɪnˈkaʊnər"
      ],
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”)."
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      "typelist": [
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          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.\n2021 February 24,  Greg Morse,  “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in  RAIL, number 925, page 39:It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way)."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.\nThree armies encountered at Waterloo.\nc. 1587–1588,  ,  Tamburlaine the Great.    The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London:     Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as  Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:Techelles, and the reſt prepare your ſwordes:I meane to incounter with that Baiazeth.\nc. 1588–1593 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I will encounter with Andronicus."
            },
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              "mean": "(transitive, India) To execute someone extrajudicially.\n2021 September 15,  “Telangana Minister says, rapist of six-year-old will be nabbed and killed in encounter”, in  Catch News‎, retrieved 25 February 2023:Speaking to the media, Reddy said, \"He (Accused in 6-year-old rape and murder case) should be encountered. We will nab the accused and will encounter him. We will stand by the victim's family. We console them and will provide aid to the family. We will encounter him (the accused).\""
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.\nTheir encounter was a matter of chance.\n1907 August,  Robert W Chambers,  chapter III, in  The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.\n1995, Maija Kalin, Coping with problems of understanding: repair sequences in coversations between native and non-native speakers:\nAs they have planned the encounters, they mostly have control over the time limits."
            },
            {
              "mean": "A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants."
            },
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              "mean": "(sports) A match between two opposing sides.\n2011 October 29,  Phil McNulty,  “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in  BBC Sport:Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.\n2021 October 10,  Graham Bowley,  “For One Bill Cosby Juror, the Work Did Not End With the Trial”, in  The New York Times‎:Though Mr. Cosby described the sexual encounter in 2004 as consensual, Ms. Constand said she was too intoxicated to physically or verbally resist."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.\n2021 September 15,  “Telangana Minister says, rapist of six-year-old will be nabbed and killed in encounter”, in  Catch News‎, retrieved 25 February 2023:Telangana Labour and Employment Minister Malla Reddy on Tuesday said that the guilty person in the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Hyderabad \"will be nabbed and will be killed in an encounter\"."
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