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accost

/uh-kawst, uh-kost/US // əˈkɔst, əˈkɒst //UK // (əˈkɒst) //

讪笑,讪谤,讪骗,讪讪的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to confront boldly: The beggar accosted me for money.
    • : to approach, especially with a greeting, question, or remark.
    • : to solicit for sexual purposes.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a greeting.

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Examples

  • Or, even more embarrassingly, she did and opted to accost Aslan about his religion regardless of the claims in his book.

  • The dreamer tries to help, and fends off a man who is about to accost her with lecherous intentions.

  • Yet how painful not to be allowed to call at a single house, or to accost a single person we met.

  • Toward noon a single man ventured out into the road to accost the cowboy.

  • Doubtless it never entered the Captain's head that any peasant would accost him about such a trifle as the ruin of his daughter.

  • He pretends to come out quite by accident, and will express great surprise when I accost him in the way I intend.

  • As I moved away, I saw one of the gamblers approach and accost him; then another of them; then the third.