accost
- Verb. (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
- Verb. (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- Verb. (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- Noun. (rare) Address; greeting.
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