verb क्रियापद

Accost meaning in marathi

accost

  • Pronunciation

    /ə.ˈkɔst/

  • Definition

    to speak to someone

    एखाद्याशी बोलणे

  • Example

    I accosted the vicar on the street.

    मी रस्त्यावरील विकाराचा आरोप केला.

  • Synonyms

    address (पत्ता)

verb क्रियापद

Accost meaning in marathi

accost

  • Definition

    to approach with an offer of sexual favors

    लैंगिक अनुकूलतेच्या ऑफरसह संपर्क साधणे

  • Example

    They accosted me at the bar.

    त्यांनी बारमध्ये माझ्यावर आरोप केले.

  • Synonyms

    hook (हुक)

verb क्रियापद

Accost meaning in marathi

accost

  • Definitions

    1. To approach; to come up to.

    पोहचण्यासाठी; पर्यंत येणे.

  • Examples:
    1. You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.

  • 2. To speak to first; to address; to greet.

    प्रथम बोलणे; पत्त्यावर; अभिवादन करण्यासाठी.

  • Examples:
    1. Him, Satan thus accosts.

    2. I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.

    3. She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."

  • 3. To adjoin; to lie alongside.

    संलग्न करणे; शेजारी झोपणे.

  • Examples:
    1. For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost

    2. Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.

  • 4. To assault.

    प्राणघातक हल्ला करणे.

  • Examples:
    1. Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.

    2. The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.

  • 5. To solicit sexually.

    लैंगिक विनंती करणे.

  • Examples:
    1. Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."

  • Synonyms

    accostment (खर्च)

noun

Accost meaning in marathi

accost

  • Definitions

    1. Address; greeting.

    पत्ता; अभिवादन

  • Examples:
    1. A man does not seize a woman by the sleeve and ask, "Is it you?" without some reason for an address so destitute of ordinary courtesy; and Lucilla was sufficiently versed in such matters to know that so rude and startling an accost could be only addressed to some one whose presence set the speaker's heart beating, and quickened the blood in his veins.

    2. Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.

    3. Great was my amazement to find the unconquerable Mr. Sim thaw immediately on the accost of this strange gentleman, who hailed him with a ready familiarity, proceeded at once to discuss with him the trade of droving and the prices of cattle, and did not disdain to take a pinch from the inevitable ram's horn.

  • 2. An attack.

    हल्ला.

  • Examples:
    1. At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.