accost

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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. verb To join side to side; to border.
3. verb To sail along the coast or side of.
4. verb To approach; to come up to.
5. verb To speak to first; to address; to greet.
6. verb To adjoin; to lie alongside.
7. verb To assault.
8. verb To solicit sexually.

Similar words

come up to solicit address waylay accoast board run up on snap up push up on come on to

Often followed by

him the her me a them you us and each

Word family

accosted accosting accosts