Meanings (ES + gloss)
encontronazo • encontrón • topamiento (disused)
A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante…
Their encounter was a matter of chance.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
encontrar
To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.
It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521…