• noun:   a casual meeting with a person of thing
• noun:   a hostile disagreement face-to-face
• noun:   a casual or unexpected convergence

  Example: "There was a brief encounter in the hallway"

• noun:   a minor short-term fight
• verb:   be beset by
• verb:   experience as a reaction
• verb:   contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
• verb:   come together
• verb:   come upon, as if by accident; meet with

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