Accost

Quick meaning: Accost is a verb meaning (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

Meaning

(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
2. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
4. (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
6. (transitive) To assault.
7. (transitive) To solicit sexually.

Example Sentences

Him, Satan thus accosts.

For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost

A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.

You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.

Word Forms

• accosts
• accosting
• accosted

Synonyms for accost

Depending on context, synonyms include waylay, solicit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include solicit, waylay, accoast, board, face, bespeak.

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