Found 3 items, similar to Accost.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: accost
menyapa
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: accost
accost
v 1: speak to someone [syn:
address,
come up to]
2: approach with an offer of sexual favors;
“he was solicited
by a prostitute”;
“The young man was caught soliciting in
the park” [syn:
hook,
solicit]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Accost
Accost
\Ac*cost"\, n.
Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley.
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Accost
\Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Accosted; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Accosting.] [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.
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2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak.
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3. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
“Him, Satan thus
accosts.” --Milton.
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Accost
\Ac*cost"\, v. i.
To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.]
“The shores which to the
sea accost.” --Spenser.
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