accost

«accost» in Mova's school dictionary: To go up to someone and speak to them first, often boldly… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (accosts, accosted, accosting)

meaning for a pupil

To go up to someone and speak to them first, often boldly or unexpectedly. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a stranger who comes up to a traveller on the road and speaks to them

examples

• A stranger accosted me at the gate. tree →
• The two men came forward and politely accosted them. tree →
• Do not accost people you do not know. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «accost» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.