accost

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

   “A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.”

2. fiil To join side to side; to border.
3. fiil To sail along the coast or side of.
4. fiil To approach; to come up to.

   “You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.”

5. fiil To speak to first; to address; to greet.

   “Him, Satan thus accosts.”

6. fiil To adjoin; to lie alongside.

   “For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost”

7. fiil To assault.

   “The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.”

8. fiil To solicit sexually.
9. isim Address; greeting.

   “Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.”

10. isim An attack.

    “At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.”