accost

Found in thesaurus: come, come up, offer

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accost
v. approach, confront, waylay (often aggressively); solicit, proposition

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accost

Verb
1. speak to someone
(synonym) address, come up to
(hypernym) come, come up
(hyponym) greet, recognize, recognise
2. approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
(synonym) hook, solicit
(hypernym) offer
(verb-group) hook, snare


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accost
v. drze oslovit

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accost
Czas. zaczepiać (kogoś)

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Accost
(v. t.)
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  
 
(v. t.)
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  
 
(v. t.)
To approach; to make up to.
  
 
(v. i.)
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  
 
(n.)
Address; greeting.
  

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