accost

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

accosts

V_ing/Gerund

accosting

V_ed/pp

accosted

1.
(transitive)To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
2.
(obsolete, transitive)To join side to side; to border.
3.
(broadly, obsolete, transitive)(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To approach; to come up to.
5.
(transitive)To speak to first; to address; to greet.
6.
(intransitive, obsolete)To adjoin; to lie alongside.
7.
(transitive)To assault.
8.
(transitive)To solicit sexually.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

accosts

1.
(rare)Address; greeting.
2.
An attack.

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accostableaccostment

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (to stand beside) (whence accostare), from Old French a- + coste (side, flank).