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means A direct, face-to-face clash between opposing people, sides, or ideas that forces the disagreement into the open.

from From Latin confrontare — con- ('together') plus frons, frontis ('forehead, face, front'). To confront someone was literally to put foreheads together, face to face, leaving no room to look away. The word moved through medieval Latin into French before settling into English in the 1500s-1600s, first in the legal sense of bringing accuser and accused face to face, later widening to any head-on clash.