accost

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

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