confront

verb7

1. •
   To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

   • It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
2. •
   To come up against; to encounter.

   • Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
3. •
   To engage in confrontation.
4. •
   To deal with.
5. •
   To bring someone face to face with something.

   • We should confront him about the missing money.
6. •
   To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
7. •
   To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.