Usually means: Met or faced a situation.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. encountered: Merriam-Webster
  2. encountered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encountered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encountered, encountered: Wordnik
  5. encountered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encountered: Wiktionary
  7. Encountered, encountered: Dictionary.com
  8. encountered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Encountered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Encountered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. encountered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. encountered: FreeDictionary.org
  13. encountered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encountered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encountered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encountered: Medical dictionary

(Note: See encounter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encounter)

verb:  (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
verb:  (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
verb:  (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
noun:  A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
noun:  A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
noun:  (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
noun:  (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
noun:  (sciences) The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
noun:  (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
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