Dictionary Entry
accost
accost is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- 2transitive verb
To approach; to make up to.
- 3transitive verb
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- 4intransitive verb
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- 5noun
Address; greeting.
- 6verb
approach with an offer of sexual favors
"he was solicited by a prostitute"
"The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- 7verb
speak to someone
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