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Meanings of accost in английском

португальский
cumprimentar
каталонский
adreçar-se a
испанский
llamar

Speak to someone.

        cumprimentar
        португальский
        abordar
        каталонский
        importunar
        испанский
        enganchar

        Approach with an offer of sexual favors.

              abordar

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

                    Синонимы
                    Examples for "abord"
                    Examples for "abord"
                    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 ...
                    Usage of accost in английском
                    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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                    Translations for accost
                    португальский
                    cumprimentarabordar
                    Accost through the time
                    Accost across language varieties
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