accost
verb (used with object)
to confront boldly.
has accosted
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present perfectof accost (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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You are curious to know who that young man in the rough great-coat is, who has accosted every Member who has entered the House since we have been standing here.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
If we are to judge of them by him, this relative who has accosted us and who is himself an initiate in those cruel mysteries, then the other guests cannot be so very demoniacal.
From Swann's Way by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Scott-Moncrieff
