All accost synonyms

verb accost

• confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• welcome — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
• greet — to lament; bewail.
• address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• salute — Military. to pay respect to or honor by some formal act, as by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.
• approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• run into — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
• solicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
• come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.