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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
encounter
en·coun·ter AW [encounter encounters encountered encountering] verb, noun BrE [ɪnˈkaʊntə(r)] NAmE [ɪnˈkaʊntər]
verb
1. ~ sth to experience sth, especially sth unpleasant or difficult, while you are trying to do sth else
Syn: meet with, Syn: run into
• We encountered a number of difficulties in the first week.
• I had never encountered such resistance before.
2. ~ sb/sth (formal)to meet sb, or discover or experience sth, especially sb/sth new, unusual or unexpected
Syn: ↑come across
• She was the most remarkable woman he had ever encountered.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘meet as an adversary’ and ‘a meeting of adversaries’; formerly also as incounter): from Old French encontrer (verb), encontre (noun), based on Latin in- ‘in’ + contra ‘against’.
Example Bank:
•Walruses were commonly encountered in the Shetland Islands until quite recently.
•What are the difficulties you are most likely to encounter?
•an idea I first encountered when I was in the army
noun
1. a meeting, especially one that is sudden, unexpected or violent
•~ (with sb/sth) Three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police.
•~ (between A and B) The story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
•a chance encounter
•I've had a number of close encounters (= situations that could have been dangerous) with bad drivers.
•It was his first sexual encounter (= first experience of sex).
•Flaubert was her first encounter with French literature.
2. a sports match against a particular player or team
•She has beaten her opponent in all of their previous encounters.
3. (IndE)an incident in which police shoot dead a suspected criminal
•The two gangsters were later killed in a police encounter.
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘meet as an adversary’ and ‘a meeting of adversaries’; formerly also as incounter): from Old French encontrer (verb), encontre (noun), based on Latin in- ‘in’ + contra ‘against’.
Example Bank:
•I decided not to risk a second close encounter with the snakes.
•I did not see him again, except for a brief encounter on a train.
•I had my first encounter with him two years ago.
•It was a chance encounter that led to the setting up of the new political party.
•The press conference was her first direct encounter with the media.
•examination of UFO sightings and alien encounters
•her early encounters with contemporary art
•my first encounter with my new boss
•the colonial encounter of indigenous craftsmen with Europeans
•the language we use in everyday social encounters
•violent encounters between police and protesters
•I've had a number of close encounters with bad drivers.
•It was his first sexual encounter.
•The whole thing was the result of a chance encounter in 1975.
•They lost their second-round encounter against Germany.
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