Definitions for rencounter

rencounter ren·coun·ter

Spelling: [ren-koun-ter]
IPA: /rɛnˈkaʊn tər/

Rencounter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in rencounter (ceennorrtu).

Definitions for rencounter

noun

  1. a hostile meeting; battle.
  2. a contest of any kind.
  3. a casual meeting.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to encounter casually.
  2. Obsolete. to meet hostilely.

Origin of rencounter

From the Middle French word rencontrer, dating back to 1495-1505. See re-, encounter

Examples for rencounter

What next was to be done, was to beg directions for the rencounter.

The rencounter came at a heavy moment, one of all moments calculated to permit its impact with the least emotional shock.

She had been bred in comparative solitude; a rencounter with men troubled and confused her.

The rencounter between free labor and slave labor was very much like that now on between capitalists and labor organizations.

I cannot helpe smiling, whenever I think of my rencounter with William this morning.

Remarking on this rencounter, Dashall observed, that the insolence of these fellows was become really a public nuisance.

But really the possible alternatives of rencounter are far less numerous.

It is difficult to say whether the man or the beast expressed most surprise at the rencounter.

In the rencounter Cole was stabbed in the shoulder, but wrenched a knife from one of his assailants and killed him.

In this rencounter the Lady proves too nimble, and slips through his Fingers.

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