Accost
[ə'kɒst] or [ə'kɔst]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Vince
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Address, salute, greet, speak to, MAKE UP TO.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Address, salute, invoke, hail, greet, stop, apostrophize, speak_to, call_to
ANT:Shun, avoid, elude, pass, ignore
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Definition
v.t. to speak first to: to address.—ns. Accost′ Accost′ing (obs.) address: greeting.—adj. Accost′able easy of access.
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Examples
- I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed like another child. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Out of the midst of them, the ghostly face would rise, and he would accost it again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request:--She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At this moment I am not disposed to accost her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Who dared accost _me_, a being in a mood so little social? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I would not accost him yet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By-and-by, he again accosted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Next day he was looking out for her, and accosted her the moment she appeared. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That whole day he never accosted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They accosted me as Satan, bid me avaunt, and clamoured to be delivered from temptation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And beside him, white with rage or fear, or both, were the scowling features of the man who had accosted him in the inn-yard. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How I managed it, or what possessed me, he, for his part, did not know; but with whatever pacific and amicable intentions a person accosted me--crac! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I walked up to the man at once, and accosted him in those words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There accosting the Spaniard, he said, Christian, the person you have killed is my son; his body is in my house. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- WELLER Samivel,' said Mr. Weller, accosting his son on the morning after the funeral, 'I've found it, Sammy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Philip