accost (verb)

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• accost — ► VERB ▪ approach and address boldly or aggressively. ORIGIN originally in the sense «go or lie alongside»: from French accoster, from Latin costa rib, side …   English terms dictionary

• accost — I verb address, adoriri, affront, ambush, approach, assail, assault, assault belligerently, attack, beset, compellare, confront, draw near, fall upon, rise in hostility before, set upon, strike at, thrust at, waylay II index approach, assail …   Law dictionary

• accost — verb approach and address boldly or aggressively. Origin C16 (orig. in the sense lie or go alongside ): from Fr. accoster, from Ital. accostare, from L. ad to + costa rib, side …   English new terms dictionary

• accost — verb (T) to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way: On the station she was accosted by a man asking for money …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• accost — verb police accosted him in the street Syn: confront, call to, shout to, hail, address, speak to; approach, detain, stop, waylay; informal buttonhole, collar, bend someone s ear …   Thesaurus of popular words

• accost — UK [əˈkɒst] / US [əˈkɔst] verb [transitive] Word forms accost : present tense I/you/we/they accost he/she/it accosts present participle accosting past tense accosted past participle accosted formal to stop someone and speak to them, especially in …   English dictionary

• accost — 1. verb /əˈkɔst/ a) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well brink now seemed to …   Wiktionary

• accost — transitive verb Etymology: Middle French accoster, ultimately from Latin ad + costa rib, side more at coast Date: 1597 to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• accost — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. greet, hail, address. See courtesy. Ant., scorn. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To greet] Syn. address, hail, call to; see greet . 2. [To solicit] Syn. approach, waylay, confront, proposition*; see… …   English dictionary for students

• accost — ac|cost [ ə kɔst ] verb transitive FORMAL to stop someone and speak to them, especially in a way that could annoy them or make them feel embarrassed: Wherever he goes he is accosted by young people asking for his autograph …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• accost — [[t]əkɒ̱st, AM əkɔ͟ːst[/t]] accosts, accosting, accosted VERB (disapproval) If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening. [FORMAL] [V n] I went …   English dictionary