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- pronunciation:
kawst
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
accosts, accosting, accosted |
| definition 1: |
to confront and speak first to, often aggressively.
A man accosted me at the train station and asked me for money.A talkative woman accosted me at the party, and I couldn't get away.- synonyms:
- affront, buttonhole, confront, waylay
- similar words:
- aggress, assail, assault, attack, badger, bother, bully, charge, face, hail, harass, nab, outface, trouble
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| definition 2: |
to solicit (someone) sexually.
She was accosted by a strange man as she was walking home.- synonyms:
- importune, molest, solicit
- similar words:
- allure, lure, proposition, tempt
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| related words: |
affront, confront, encounter, molest, solicit, tout, waylay |
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