| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To approach.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb accost.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (accost) | 1. Speak to someone.[Wordnet]. 2. Approach with an offer of sexual favors.[Wordnet]. 3. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.[Websters]. 4. To approach; to make up to.[Websters]. 5. To speak to first; to address; to greet.[Websters]. 6. To adjoin; to lie alongside.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: accosting, accosted, accosts, accoster, accosters, accostingly and accostedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACCOSTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1647. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ACCOSTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Addressing by first speaking to.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] The act of physically confronting a person. The bloke was accosting the young woman. (references) | 2: [Verb] Present participle of accost. (references) | |
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