accost

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İngilizce - İngilizce
Address; greeting
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of
To adjoin; to lie alongside
To speak to first; to address; to greet

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..

To approach; to make up to
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request
to speak to
{v} to address, speak first to, salute
approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
speak to someone
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. A man had accosted me in the street. to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way
{f} approach, confront, waylay (often aggressively); solicit, proposition
accosted
Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
accosted
Simple past tense and past participle of accost
To accost
abord
accosted
Simple past and past participle of to accost
accosting
The act of physically confronting a person
accosting
present participle of accost
accosts
third-person singular of accost
accost