accost

Etymology
First attested in the 1570s. From, from , from +. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

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

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, dotírat, dorážet
 * Danish: antaste
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latin: affor
 * Norman: achîtrer
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: antaste,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: affor
 * Portuguese:


 * French:


 * Bashkir: өндәшеү, һүҙ ҡушыу
 * Bulgarian:, обръщам се към
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: affor
 * Maori: aropā
 * Swedish:


 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Danish: antaste
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: nabízet se
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:


 * Breton:, , ,
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  Address; greeting.
 * 2) An attack.
 * 1) An attack.
 * 1) An attack.
 * 1) An attack.