Spanish word
afrontar
/afɾonˈtaɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B2
- Frequency
- No. 1,318 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to face a problem
- to face, address, tackle, meet, deal with, confront, cope with, handle, bear, manage, (e.g. reality, an issue, a situation, a problem)transitive
- to defy, to brave
- to afford, to bear (e.g. a cost, a loss)
- disused form of afrentar (“to affront”)transitive
- affront(1. to insult intentionally, especially openly)
- reproach(to disgrace, or bring shame upon someone)
- tackle(to face or deal with)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)