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accosts

verb , present tense third-person singular of accost

Synonyms and Antonyms of accosts

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 accosts

approaches, corners

beards, braves, brazens, breasts, confronts, dares, defies, faces, outbraves, outfaces

faces up (to), fronts

encounters, meets

repels, resists, stands, withstands

battles, combats, contends (with), fights, opposes, squares (off)

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of accosts

avoids, eschews, shuns

eludes, escapes, evades, shakes

dodges, ducks, funks, shirks, sidesteps

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