1) Address 2) Address aggressively 3) Aggressively approach 4) Ambush 5) Approach 6) Approach abruptly 7) Approach aggressively 8) Approach and confront 9) Approach and speak to 10) Approach angrily 11) Approach boldly 12) Approach intrusively 13) Boldly approach 14) Buttonhole 15) Challenge 16) Come
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• (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.
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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 + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast. ......
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Ac·cost' (#; 115)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Accosted ;
present participle & verbal noun Accosting .] [ French
accoster , Late Latin
accostare to bring side by side; Latin
ad +
costa rib, ...
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Ac·cost' intransitive verb To adjoin; to lie alongside. [ Obsolete] 'The shores which to the sea
accost .'
Spenser. Found on
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Ac·cost' noun Address; greeting. [ R.]
J. Morley. Found on
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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, or from the French derivative accoster, we have mad...
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verb speak to someone
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to confront boldly: The beggar accosted me for money. · to approach, esp. with a greeting, question, or remark. · (of prostitutes, procurers, etc.) to solicit for sexual purposes.
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