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noun as in sporting event involving several participants

verb as in happen upon, encounter

Strong matches

accost, collide, confront, cross, encounter, engage, experience, grapple, hit, light, luck, salute, stumble, tumble, tussle

Weak matches

brush against, bump into, chance on, come across, come up against, dig up, fall in with, get-together, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, touch shoulders

Strong matches

abut, adhere, adjoin, border, coincide, connect, converge, cross, intersect, link, touch, unite

verb as in perform, carry out

Strong matches

answer, approach, comply, discharge, equal, execute, fit, fulfill, gratify, handle, rival, suffice, tie, touch

verb as in come together, convene

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Example Sentences

I asked Renee if that had changed in the two years since they met.

It's getting to the point where I don't know if I want to be close friends with this version of Elizabeth, which is difficult because we're both still active in the same activity where we first met.

Instead, helmet makers simply have to keep records of testing performed at outside labs or their own facilities to prove their helmets meet the standard.

The services will develop a moderation approach that best meets the needs of their consumers.

The NTSB board was meeting virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lee and Coogan did briefly meet with the pope, with pictures to prove it, but no one at the Vatican officially screened the film.

There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.

On Tuesday, President Obama will meet with Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico.

When we meet them, their lives are unfulfilled, and at no point are we convinced their condition will change.

I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.

He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.

The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

He returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.

I haven't much time for seeing any one, except my patients, and the people I meet in society.

Then Jimmy remembered suddenly that he had to meet Grandfather Mole over there.