Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalGenAm:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈkɔst/
  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: /əˈkɔst/
  • cot-caught:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈkɑst/
  • Canada:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈkɑst/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈkɒst/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Verb

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

Substantiv

  1. (rare) Address; greeting.

Exempel

  • The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
  • So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
  • Him, Satan thus accosts.
  • She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
  • the shores which to the sea accost
  • so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipaccosted
Imperfektaccosted
Presensparticipaccosting
Pluralaccosts
Tredje person singular indicativ presensaccosts