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Accost
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Accost has 2 senses
- accost(v = verb.communication) address, come up to - speak to someone; Array is one way to come, come up
- accost(v = verb.communication) hook, solicit - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" is one way to offer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
Accost, v. t. [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.].
- To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- To approach; to make up to. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To speak to first; to address; to greet. Milton. [1913 Webster]
Accost, v. i.
To adjoin; to lie alongside. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Accost, n.
Address; greeting. J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Accost, v.tr.
1 approach and address (a person), esp. boldly.
2 (of a prostitute) solicit.
1 approach and address (a person), esp. boldly.
2 (of a prostitute) solicit.
Etymology
F accoster f. It. accostare ult. f. L costa rib: see COAST
THESAURUS
Accost
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, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, confront, curtsy, draw near, draw nigh, encounter, exchange greetings, gain upon, greet, hail, halloo, invoke, kiss, kiss hands, lift the hat, narrow the gap, near, nod to, proximate, pull the forelock, salute, say hello, shake, shake hands, sidle up to, speak, speak fair, speak to, step up, take aside, talk to, touch the hat, uncoverROGET THESAURUS
Accost
Allocution
VB speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke, ball, salute, call to, halloo, take aside, take by the button, talk to in private, lecture, Int, soho!, halloo!, hey!, hist!.
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