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ACCOST
hook, solicit, accost
(verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors; āhe was solicited by a prostituteā; āThe young man was caught soliciting in the parkā
address, accost, come up to
(verb) speak to someone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)
(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
(transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(transitive) To assault.
(transitive) To solicit sexually.
Noun
accost (plural accosts)
(rare) Address; greeting.
An attack.
Anagrams
• coacts
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cost" (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] Etym: [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.]
1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.
2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
Ac*cost", v. i.
Definition: To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
Ac*cost", n.
Definition: Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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