Accost

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  • transitive verb. To approach and speak to, especially aggressively or insistently, as with a demand or request.
  • transitive verb. To approach and speak to with the intent of having sex.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of accosting; address; salutation.
  • To come side by side or face to face with; draw near; approach; make up to.
  • To speak to; address.
  • To border on; adjoin.
  • To adjoin; be adjacent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  • noun. Address; greeting.
  • transitive verb. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  • transitive verb. To approach; to make up to.
  • transitive verb. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  • verb. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  • verb. To approach; to come up to.
  • verb. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  • verb. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  • verb. To solicit sexually.
  • noun. Address; greeting.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. approach with an offer of sexual favors
  • verb. speak to someone
  • Word Usage
    "You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her."
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    offer  
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