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# accost

verb (accosts, accosted, accosting)

«accost» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To go up to someone and speak to them first, often boldly or unexpectedly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accost/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accost/#x1)
- The two men came forward and politely accosted them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accost/#x2)
- Do not accost people you do not know. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accost/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accost» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accost/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accost» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accost.html) on Mova free.