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  1. Accost
    Ac·cost' (#; 115) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Accosted ; present participle & verbal noun Accosting .] [ French accoster , Late Latin accostare to bring si...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/15

  2. Accost
    Ac·cost' intransitive verb To adjoin; to lie alongside. [ Obsolete] 'The shores which to the sea accost .' Spenser.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/15

  3. Accost
    Ac·cost' noun Address; greeting. [ R.] J. Morley.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/15

  4. accost
    1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. 'So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.' ... 2. To approach; to make up to. ... 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. 'Him, Satan thus accosts.' ... Origin: F. Accoster, LL. Accostare to bring side by side; L. Ad ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?accost

  5. accost
    verb speak to someone
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=accost

  6. Accost
    • (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. • (v. t.) To approach; to make up to. • (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet. • (v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside. • (n.) Address; greeting.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/accost/

  7. accost
    accost 1. To approach and stop someone in order to speak; especially, in an aggressive, insistent, or suggestive way. 2. Etymology: via French and ultimately from Latin accostare, 'to adjoin'; from costa, 'rib, side' (source of English coast). The essential sense is 'to be alongside'. From this, o...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/551/

  8. accost
    1) Address 2) Ambush 3) Approach 4) Approach abruptly 5) Approach aggressively 6) Approach with a question or remark 7) Buttonhole 8) Challenge 9) Come 10) Come up 11) Come up to 12) Confront 13) Confront aggr...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/accost/1

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