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Synonyms for accost

verb

  1. To greet

    address, hail, call to; see greet.

  2. To solicit

    approach, waylay, confront, proposition*; see approach 1, solicit 3.

See accost in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb
  1. To approach for the purpose of speech:

    greet, hail2, salute. See approach, greeting, seek
  2. To meet face-to-face, especially defiantly:

    confront, encounter, face, front. See meet

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