Encounter
Encounter verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.
Usage example: quite unexpectedly encountered our next-door neighbor while vacationing in Europe
Hit and encounter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hit" instead the word "Encounter" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: encountered, encountering
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| high | high encounter | high hit |
| normal | normal encounter | normal hit |
| direct | direct encounter | direct hit |
| original | original encounter | original hit |
| Other adjectives: initial, proper, single, nasty, actual, real, bad, new, early, major, near, minor, fatal, unexpected, accidental, next, last, recent, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Eryi's Action: Like many other platformers, you die the moment you hit a chicken, jumping flower, spike, flame, or any other of the numerous hazards you encounter in the game.
Source: One-Hit-Point Wonder -
Subverted in a way with Sligs - they have such bad aim that it always takes them three shots to hit and kill Abe, so that basically translates to three hit points per Slig encounter.
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The zombies you encounter in the second world are blue and do the Zombie Gait at first, but start running angrily when hit once, and turn into normal lemmings when you hit them the second time.
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