Crossword-Solution: ACCOST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ACCOST | anagram | COACTS |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 119 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).