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accost

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of accost

to approach and speak to (someone) often in an angry, aggressive, or unwanted way

He was accosted by peddlers selling touristy trinkets on the street.

She was so famous that people would accost her on the street and ask for an autograph.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of accost

approach, corner

beard, brave, brazen, breast, confront, dare, defy, face, outbrave, outface

face up (to), front

encounter, meet

repel, resist, stand, withstand

battle, combat, contend (with), fight, oppose, square (off)

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of accost

avoid, eschew, shun

elude, escape, evade, shake

dodge, duck, funk, shirk, sidestep

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