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How to pronounce “accost”
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Pronunciation guide for accost
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of accost with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Salad Demo from The Broad Fork
to do, where he used to accost women in the grocery store,
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce accost
Salad Demo from The Broad Fork
to do, where he used to accost women in the grocery store,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “accost”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
- (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
- (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- (transitive) To assault.
- (transitive) To solicit sexually.
- [Noun]
- (rare) Address; greeting.
- An attack.
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