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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