An experience or event undergone or encountered by a person, esp. an unpleasant one. Obsolete.

= rencounter, n. 3. Obsolete.

An encounter with something annoying or disagreeable; an unpleasant experience in one's relations with others.

transferred and figurative. An unpleasant experience.

figurative an unpleasant or discouraging experience, revelation, etc.; circumstances, events, etc., that have an inhibiting or subduing effect.

figurative and hyperbolical. Terrible harm or destruction to a thing, or to a person's feelings, sensibilities, etc. Also in weakened sense…

A disappointing, unpleasant, or unwanted situation or experience; a disappointment, a failure.