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Meanings of accost in inglês

português
cumprimentar
catalão
adreçar-se a
espanhol
llamar

Speak to someone.

cumprimentar
português
abordar
catalão
importunar
espanhol
enganchar

Approach with an offer of sexual favors.

abordar
Synonyms
Examples for "hook"
Examples for "hook"
1
As a result, he allowed the private sector off the financial hook.
The Guardian
2
The longer it takes systems to hook up, the slower manufacturers' sales.
Reuters
3
Thought I'd ask, she says, letting me off the hook too easy.
Something wicked
4
Never mind: any moment now she would let him off the hook.
Ladder of years: a novel
5
Does it merely facilitate quick and easy hook-ups or actually encourage them?
The Irish Times
1
Fresh Market said it had a 21-day period to solicit superior offers.
Reuters
2
As long as he offered a perceived benefit, he could solicit help.
Eve of darkness
3
Once approved, Accuride will solicit creditors to vote on the disclosure statement.
Reuters
4
It allows companies to openly solicit investors in the US and abroad.
BBC
5
She says we can still solicit contributions outside of the nonprofit model.
The Lifecycle of Software Objects

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

Usage of accost in inglês
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
6
When I tried to accost him, he pretended not to recognize me.
Petals from the sky
7
Was it instinct or premonition that led them to accost the bonne?
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01
8
How shall I accost him?' whispered a well-known voice-couldit be Hypatia's?
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
9
Men like Lachlan McGillivray did not accost Fiona as a matter of course.
Mcgillivray's mistress
10
Their accost is curt; their accent and tone of speech blunt and harsh.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
11
He was not to accost her in the presence of any other person.
The Avenger
12
When she is of the exercise I will also accost and restrain her.
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
13
With these words I accost the prophet, and thus make request:
The Aeneid of Virgil
14
Put surely I accost Alain de Kerouec, son of the Marquis de Rochebriant.
The Parisians — Complete
15
If they should accost us, ser, I beg you, leave them to me.
A feast for crows
16
Kells appeared busy with men outside and did not accost her.
The Border Legion
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