alfronti
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alfronti (present alfrontas, past alfrontis, future alfrontos, conditional alfrontus, volitive alfrontu)
- (transitive) to face (have one’s face / the front part turned toward)
- Ni ne kuraĝis alfronti unu la alian. ― We didn’t dare face one another.
- Edwin Grobe (translator), La Falo de Uŝer-Domo (The Fall of the House of Usher) by Edgar Alan Poe,
- De pozicio alfrontinta la mian, iom post iom li ĉirkaŭmovis sian seĝon ĝis ĝin postenigi en alfrontado al la ĉambropordo [...]
- From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with his face to the door of the chamber
- (transitive) to face, confront (come up against, (have to) deal with)
- Nin alfrontis terura danĝero. ― We were faced with terrible danger.
- Simono Pejno (translator), “Revon Havas Mi” (“I Have a Dream),” speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on 28 August, 1963,
- Foje kaj refoje ni leviĝu supren al majestaj altejoj, alfrontante fizikan forton kun anima forto.
- Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
