9 synonym groups for Encounter

facing a crucial challenge, confronting a critical challenge, meeting a significant challenge, encountering a key challenge, dealing with an essential challenge, grappling with a major challenge, tackling a vital challenge, addressing an important challenge, confronting a decisive challenge, facing a fundamental challenge [x]

encounter, come across, run into, bump into, come upon, stumble upon, happen upon, face, confront, engage, join, assemble, gather, convene, congregate, rendezvous, connect, link up, hook up, get together, socialize, mingle, network, interact, associate, affiliate, unite, join up, join forces, collaborate, cooperate, liaise, interface, touch base, catch up, see, visit, call on, drop in on, drop by, stop by, swing by, pop in, pop by, come by, come over, pay a visit, make contact, make the acquaintance of [x]

introduction, encounter, first meeting, initial meeting, getting to know, first encounter, acquaintance, familiarization, first introduction, meeting, first acquaintance, getting acquainted, making acquaintance, first contact, initial introduction, first familiarization, first interaction, first engagement, first connection, first association, first meeting point, first rendezvous, first assembly, first gathering, first session, first conference, first consultation, first discussion, first conversation, first dialogue, first exchange, first communication, first interface, first link, first relation, first rapport, first affiliation, first bond, first tie, first union, first joining, first merging, first blending, first fusion, first integration, first synthesis, first amalgamation [x]

clash, conflict, encounter, fight, battle, fray, tussle, scuffle, brawl, altercation, melee, engagement, confrontation, brush, row, scrap, struggle, combat, contest, dispute, quarrel, wrangle, set-to, run-in, dust-up, hassle, ruckus, affray, donnybrook, fracas, rowdyism, squabble, tiff, spat, kerfuffle, rumpus, commotion, disturbance, uproar, tumult, turmoil, pandemonium, brouhaha, hubbub, hullabaloo, ruck [x]

discovery, finding, encounter, unearthing, detection, revelation, uncovering, spotting, stumbling upon, happening upon, locating, identifying, recognizing, perceiving, noticing, observing, sighting, unveiling, exposing, bringing to light, hitting upon, running across, running into, bumping into, chancing upon, meeting, coming across, happening on, falling upon, lighting upon, running upon, coming to, coming into contact with, coming into view, coming into sight, coming to light, coming to notice, coming to attention, coming to awareness, coming to knowledge, coming to understanding, coming to realization, coming to recognition, coming to perception, coming to observation, coming to detection, coming to discovery, coming to finding, coming to encounter [x]

dashing across, sprinting across, racing across, scurrying across, darting across, bolting across, speeding across, hurrying across, rushing across, zipping across, flying across, tearing across, zooming across, bounding across, galloping across, scampering across, skimming across, shooting across, whisking across, coursing across, gliding across, sweeping across, breezing across, flitting across, scudding across, loping across, striding across, trotting across, pacing across, traversing across, crossing over, moving across, passing over, spanning across, navigating across, covering across, spanning over, spanning through, spanning along, spanning around, spanning beyond, spanning past [x]

discovering, encountering, finding, coming across, running into, happening upon, chancing upon, bumping into, stumbling across, uncovering, hitting upon, meeting with, running across, coming upon, running upon, lighting upon, falling upon, tripping over [x]

bumping into, running into, encountering, coming across, stumbling upon, running across, meeting by chance, happening upon, chancing upon, running upon, coming upon, meeting accidentally, running into by chance, meeting serendipitously, crossing paths with, meeting fortuitously, meeting coincidentally, meeting unplanned, meeting spontaneously, meeting out of the blue, meeting randomly, meeting without warning, meeting without planning, meeting by surprise, meeting inadvertently, meeting unintentionally, meeting by happenstance, meeting by fluke, meeting by luck, meeting by fortune, meeting by accident, meeting by coincidence, meeting by serendipity, meeting by fate, meeting by destiny, meeting by providence, meeting by chance encounter, meeting by unexpected encounter, meeting by unplanned encounter, meeting by random encounter, meeting by surprise encounter, meeting by accidental encounter, meeting by fortuitous encounter, meeting by coincidental encounter, meeting by serendipitous encounter, meeting by fateful encounter, meeting by providential encounter, meeting by lucky encounter [x]

encountering, meeting, running into, coming across, stumbling upon, colliding with, crashing into, brushing against, jostling, hitting, striking, knocking into, smashing into, clashing with, tangling with, intersecting with, crossing paths with, chancing upon, happening upon, discovering, finding, confronting, facing, engaging with, interacting with, mingling with, mixing with, rubbing shoulders with, coming upon, tripping over, bumping against, nudging, elbowing, shoving, pushing, grazing, touching, contacting, connecting with, engaging, interfacing with, engaging in, encountering unexpectedly, meeting by chance, running across, running upon, stumbling across, stumbling into [x]