Sekirov Dictionary

accost

UK /əˈkɒst/US /əˈkɔst/

verb 8
noun 2
forms 5

verb8

•
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
•
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- Him, Satan thus accosts. — 1667
To solicit sexually.
•
To assault.
- Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun. — 2017
•
(no longer used) To approach; to come up to.
- You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her. — 1601
(no longer used) To join side to side; to border.
•
(no longer used) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English. — 1662
(no longer used) To sail along the coast or side of.

noun2

An attack.
(rare) Address; greeting.

forms

accosted · accosting · accosteth · accosts · accostest

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