Crossword-Solution: ACCOST 6 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Accost v. t. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along
the coast or side of.
Accost v. t. To approach; to make up to.
Accost v. t. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
Accost v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
Accost n. Address; greeting.

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ACCOST anagram COACTS

We have 108 clues for the answer “ACCOST”

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APPROACH and address boldly 1 answer
Address abruptly 1 answer
Address aggressively 1 answer
Aggressively approach 1 answer
Agressively approach 1 answer
Approach abruptly 1 answer
Approach aggressively 1 answer
Approach and confront 1 answer
Approach and speak to boldly 1 answer
Approach and speak to. 1 answer
Approach angrily 1 answer
Approach boldly 1 answer
Approach with a question or remark 1 answer
Attack someone unexpectedly 1 answer
Boldly approach 1 answer
Boldly confront 1 answer
Buttonhole in a corner, perhaps 1 answer
Come right up to 1 answer
Confront aggressively 1 answer
Confront angrily 1 answer
Confront brazenly 1 answer
Confront rudely 1 answer
Get up in the face of 1 answer
Grab by the collar, say 1 answer
Grab by the shirt, say 1 answer
Greet abruptly 1 answer
Greet aggressively 1 answer
Greet brazenly 1 answer
Greet first 1 answer
Greet obtrusively 1 answer
Harass publicly 1 answer
Rudely confront 1 answer
Solicit aggressively 1 answer
Speak aggressively to 1 answer
Speak first to. 1 answer
Speak to aggressively 1 answer
Stop in order to speak to 1 answer
Treat brazenly 1 answer
Waylay to talk to 1 answer
Word from the Latin for "put side by side" 1 answer
engage with 1 answer
Confront someone unexpectedly 2 answers
SPEAK first 2 answers
Stop and confront someone unexpectedly 2 answers
Confront boldly 6 answers
APPROACH A TASK 10 answers
A LINE OF APPROACH 10 answers
APPROACH INTRUSIVELY 10 answers
APPROACH QUICKLY 10 answers
APPROACH THE END OF AN OC 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACCOST (5)

Back stept those two fair Angels half amaz’d So sudden to behold the grieslie King; Yet thus, unmovd with fear, accost him soon.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Following him with my eyes, I saw him lift his hat and accost a graceful, fashionably dressed woman who had just appeared from the booking-office.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993
Board to accost, and see Board, n.] To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
His long flowing beard gave him rather a majestic look, but his briskness of manner, and his visible anxiety to accost me, seemed strange in an Oriental.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
Sim thaw immediately on the accost of this strange gentleman, who hailed him with a ready familiarity, proceeded at once to discuss with him the trade of droving and the prices of cattle, and did not disdain to take a pinch from the inevitable ram’s horn.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with ACCOST (3)

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction.
Georges Limbour
Wrath crawled out from the well, on direction from Hell, to get back what it once lost. With vengeance in mind, it set out to find, a specified soul to accost. When the Hell-well beckoned, Mother’s will now reckoned, her dead soul now wholly enslaved. Embodied in a rotting husk, the corpse reeked of putrid musk, her being wholly depraved.
A. Lee Brock Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode
Rayna found a makeover show on TV-one of those where they sneak up on unsuspecting people going about their business, accost them with camera, and tell them they look like crap in front of a zillion people, making them cry, then build them back up with a new makeup job they won't be able to replicate and outfits so intricate they'll never remember how to fit them together. It was perfect.
Hilary Duff Devoted
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 119 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).