- accost
- v1. assail, confront boldly, attack; assault, set upon, aggress, waylay; charge, storm, invade; bother, trouble, annoy, harass, molest, harry, bully; badger, nag, pester, pursue, importune; encounter, meet, face, meet face to face, front, affront, come face to face with; call to, appeal to, invoke.2. approach, edge or sidle up to, draw near, near; overtake, meet up with, catch up to, Inf. nab; buttonhole, Sl. bend [s.o.'s] ear; address, say to, speak to, apostrophize; talk to, converse with; greet, salute, hail, welcome, bid or say hello, bid good day.3.(all usu. of prostitutes, procurers, etc.) solicit, propose, suggest; lure, allure, tempt, sway, lead astray, obtain.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.