Question

Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet. Horatio: Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead vast and middle of the night, Been thus encounter’d: a figure like your father, Which words or phrases are denotations of the underlined word? Check all that apply. came upon conflict unexpected surprise met with

Answer 1

Denotations of encounter'd: 
came upon
met with

These two phrases mean the same as encounter'd in this passage, because Horatio is explaining how Marcellus and Bernardo met with/came upon the ghost of Hamlet's father two nights in a row on top of the castle.