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accostac‧cost /əˈkɒst $ əˈkɒːst, əˈkɑːst/ verb [transitive] written  accostOrigin: 1500-1600 French accoster, from Latin costa ‘rib, side’ VERB TABLEaccost |
Present | I, you, we, they | accost | | he, she, it | accosts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | accosted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have accosted | | he, she, it | has accosted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had accosted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will accost | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have accosted |
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Present | I | am accosting | | he, she, it | is accosting | | you, we, they | are accosting | Past | I, he, she, it | was accosting | | you, we, they | were accosting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been accosting | | he, she, it | has been accosting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been accosting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be accosting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been accosting |
- Two men accosted her in front of her apartment building.
- A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her.
- No one other than herself pursued or accosted Ruth.
- No one was near enough to accost her or wonder about her presence.
- One black professor was verbally accosted by a white student.
- They were accosted by three white youths who taunted and then attacked them.
to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way: He was accosted by four youths and forced to give them all his money. |