Meaning of meet with | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To have a meeting with (someone).
   Canada, US, transitive
2. To encounter; to experience.
   transitive
3. To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
   transitive
4. To strike (something).
   transitive
5. To contact or touch (something).
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’ ‘They want what?’ ‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’ ‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.”

“The proposal met with stiff opposition.”

“I will follow your La’ſhip through the World; but your La’ſhip had almoſt as good be alone; for I ſhall not be able to defend you, if any Robbers, or other Villains, ſhould meet with you.”

“No ſnakes of any kind are to be met with throughout the whole iſland.”

“Dorothy told the Witch all her story; how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.”

“This is not unsatisfactory, but the change at Ballybrophy (a dismal station at the best of times) is not one that meets with the approval of the citizens of Clonmel.”

“The growing crisis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which demands intelligence and compassion, meets instead with ancient superstition.”

“They met the proposal with stiff opposition.”

“The proposal was met with stiff opposition.”

“His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.”

“The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.”

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