Meaning of Accost | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
   transitive
2. To join side to side; to border.
   obsolete, transitive
3. To sail along the coast or side of.
   broadly, obsolete, transitive
4. To approach; to come up to.
   obsolete, transitive
5. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
   transitive
6. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
   intransitive, obsolete
7. To assault.
   transitive
8. To solicit sexually.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.”

“You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.”

“Him, Satan thus accosts.”

“She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."”

“I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.”

“For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost”

“Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.”

“The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.”

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

“Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."”

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