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Accost meaning
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. | To join side to side; to border. | To sail along the coast or side of.
Example sentences (6)
The prime example of this is the protesters and rioters who accost passersby, beat and bloody up pedestrians, chase children, and vandalize Jewish-owned storefronts.
The online group arrived in Eastfield Road, Peterborough, to accost Turiccki on 20 February 2022 and he was arrested by officers.
Video from the encounter shows that the driver was forced to the ground by protesters nearby, who continued to physically and verbally accost him.
He then went to accost Wardlow, but got blasted with a right hand.
Officers said the woman allegedly tried to accost someone at a nearby Safeway shortly before the stabbing.
The video, tapped by the victim Wesly Michel, showed Michael Cukor as he began to accost Michel for simply waiting in the building’s lobby while he waited for his friend.