accost
11accost — 1. verb /əˈkɔst/ a) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 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 …
12accost — to approach a stranger with a taboo request or suggestion Originally, accost meant to lie alongside, which may be what a prostitute has in mind: Gladstone refers to being accosted , i. e. the initiative was the prostitute s, not, as in… …
13accost bellicosely — index assault Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
14accost — transitive verb Etymology: Middle French accoster, ultimately from Latin ad + costa rib, side more at coast Date: 1597 to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way …
15accost — accostable, adj. /euh kawst , euh kost /, v.t. 1. to confront boldly: The beggar accosted me for money. 2. to approach, esp. with a greeting, question, or remark. 3. (of prostitutes, procurers, etc.) to solicit for sexual purposes. n. 4. a… …
16accost — Synonyms and related words: address, advance, apostrophize, appeal to, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, bespeak, bid good day, bid good morning, bow to, buttonhole, call to, close, close in, close with …
17accost — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. greet, hail, address. See courtesy. Ant., scorn. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To greet] Syn. address, hail, call to; see greet . 2. [To solicit] Syn. approach, waylay, confront, proposition*; see… …
18accost — ac|cost [əˈkɔst US əˈko:st, əˈka:st] v [T] written [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: accoster, from Latin costa rib, side ] to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way ▪ He was accosted by four… …
19accost — ac|cost [ ə kɔst ] verb transitive FORMAL to stop someone and speak to them, especially in a way that could annoy them or make them feel embarrassed: Wherever he goes he is accosted by young people asking for his autograph …
20accost — [[t]əkɒ̱st, AM əkɔ͟ːst[/t]] accosts, accosting, accosted VERB (disapproval) If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening. [FORMAL] [V n] I went …
