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Meanings of abord in anglès

To approach and speak to, especially in an unfriendly way.

        Sinònims
        Examples for "accost"
        Examples for "accost"
        1
        The accost and the reply sounded like reports from the same pistol.
        Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
        2
        You are the first to accost me for now three hundred years.
        Washington Irving
        3
        I don't want to have that girl accost me in the street.
        Notre-Dame de Paris
        4
        No attempt had up to that time been made to accost her.
        Facing the Flag
        5
        The cactus punks watched Ori and Baron but did not accost them.
        Iron Council
        Usage of abord in anglès
        1
        Your 'abord', I must tell you, was too cold and uniform; I hope it is now mended.
        Letters to His Son, 1752 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
        2
        Wee kept Sabbath abord.
        Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
        3
        I fear the want of that air, and first 'abord', which suddenly lays hold of the heart, one does not know distinctly how or why.
        Letters to His Son, 1751 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
        Abord through the time