accost

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

   • A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
2. 2

   To join side to side

   To join side to side; to border.

3. 3

   To sail along the coast or side of.

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   1. 4

      To approach

      To approach; to come up to.

      • You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.
   2. 5

      To speak to first

      To speak to first; to address; to greet.

      • Him, Satan thus accosts.
      • I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.
   3. 6

      To adjoin

      To adjoin; to lie alongside.

      • For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost
      • Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
   4. 7

      To assault.

      • Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.
   5. 8

      To solicit sexually.

   6. 9

      Address

      Address; greeting.

      • Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.
   7. 10

      An attack.

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