accosted

[uh-kaw-stid, uh-kos-tid] / əˈkɔ stɪd, əˈkɒs tɪd /

VERB

approach for conversation or solicitation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

annoy buttonhole confront

STRONG

address bother brace call challenge cross dare entice face flag greet hail proposition salute welcome

WEAK

run into whistle for

Antonyms

STRONG

aid help ignore refrain slight turn away

WEAK

avoid dodge evade scorn shun

Example Sentences

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Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority has deported and barred 26-year-old Johnson Wen from reentering the country after he crashed the yellow carpet and accosted star Ariana Grande, according to several reports.

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“I’ve gotten like five comments on it today,” the 26-year-old said after I accosted her on her way to grab dinner.

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But students who gathered in a campus hallway to watch said they were verbally assaulted by young men who accosted them, screamed that they were terrorists and threw their laptops in a trash can.

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There’s a telling scene early on when Rebecca, briefly accosted on the dance floor, switches names with her date, introducing herself as Eileen and referring to Eileen as Rebecca.

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While she did not see Kessler accosted or fall to the ground, she said, she saw paramedics loading a man onto an ambulance.

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