accosting
present participle ofaccost
accost
verb[Toften passive]
formaluk/əˈkɒst/us/əˈkɑːst/to go up to orstopandspeakto someone in athreateningway:
I'm usually accosted bybeggarsanddrunksas Iwalkto thestation.
Interrupting & preventing from speaking
- barge
- belt up
- blurtsomethingout
- breaksomeonein
- butt in
- chime
- chip(something)in
- cut the crap!idiom
- horn in
- interpolation
- interrupt
- interruption
- mike check
- nobble
- not get a word in edgewaysidiom
- obtrude
- shutyourmouth/faceidiom
- speak
- strike
- waylay
Examplesofaccosting
accosting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
If there is a tout who is obviously touting for business it will be seen that he isaccostingpeople in the street.
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They see a manaccostingparticular individuals who may be walking down the street.
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It proposes certain new offences to deal with theaccostingof women by men.
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We have got rid of loitering as being sufficient grounds for prosecution; we have insisted that there shall beaccosting.
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What will happen is that it will act as a healthy deterrent on the man who has been used to kerb-crawling andaccostingwomen.
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If a man is a kerb-crawler, he is loitering andaccosting.
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Surely the nuisance is not just going slowly along the kerb, getting out and meeting somebody, butaccostingor soliciting somebody.
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It is not clear whether menaccostingwomen on the street are a lesser public nuisance than men who solicit from their cars.
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But you do not have to prove, difficult though that is, persistentaccosting; you have to prove that it was done with a particular object.
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I assume foraccostingor soliciting.
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In order to achieve that goal they are prepared to go along the street, mile after mile,accostingand upsetting all the women they can intercept.
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The man is accused ofaccostingher.
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We have the case of persistence, when time after time or for 20 minutes or more a man can be shown to be cruising aroundaccostingdifferent women.
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On several occasions she jumps up, even hopping over other goats andaccostinga human observer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Private merchant ships are forbidden from trading and other ships fromaccosting.
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