The verb "accost" means to approach someone, or confront them, with the intent of making a request, demand, or accusation.
It is used legally to specifically apply to sexual solicitation, rather than to mean assault.
1 (of animals) represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted. 2 To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
The men accosted the shopper in broad daylight, demanding her wallet.
Regularly accosted by a group of bullying, neighborhood teenagers, the old woman was afraid to go out of her house.
I refuse to feel accosted from men's cat calls when I walk down the street.
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She accosted me later on the street, just as I was leaving the office, to tell me all the nasty things she didn't have the guts to say at the board meeting.
The problem with outdoor cafes in New York City is that sometimes patrons get accosted by deranged homeless people, which can be very frightening, even though they usually won't physically harm you.
Here is a sentence that contains the word accost. I will accost the stranger walking past me on the street.
-To accost another prisoner in jail is a way to start a fight.
Accost is a verb. It describes an action.
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An antonym for accost is ignore, avoid, and shun.
He accost me with excessive warmth
The man was astounded by how the teenager accosted him. Accost=Confront
I don't know why you continue to accost me.
I will not accost him. It means to confront a person with force.
Synonyms of Accost: call, welcome, greet, challenge, address Antonyms of Accost: ignore, scorn, avoid, shun
Sam didn't want to accost Melanie, but he needed to speak with her. Lobbyists would occasionally accost the new senator as he walked to his office.
The young man was yelling so vehemently at the girl that I was afraid he would physically accost her. To accost another inmate in the prison was a sure way to start a fight.
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Address and Annoy
Address and Annoy
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