accost
verb (used with object)
to confront boldly.
have accosted
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present perfectof accost.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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"Ac-vance, friend, and give de countersign," responded the literal soldier, who at such a tune would have accosted: a spirit of light or goblin damned with no other formula.
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There were no enemies here, or they certainly would have accosted him when he raised the window; and a match might reveal his presence to some one in an adjoining room.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
Countess Love doesn't hide itself, sir, and you have accosted me in a manner that convinces me you have a great deal for Arabella.
From The Double Widowing by Frank J. Morlock
I would gladly have accosted him, had it not seemed as if he were listening to something, inaudible to me, that was being said inside the room.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
He met one of his favorite daughters By an Evangelical Meeting: And forgetting himself for joy at her sight, He would have accosted her outright, And given her a fatherly greeting.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
