(v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
(v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
(v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(n.) Address; greeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, is accosted by a Femen activist in Hanover as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looks on.
(2) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
(3) Around the time we were filming the second series of CTM, I attended a midwifery conference and was accosted by a midwifery admissions tutor who told me in mock accusation that I was making her life extremely difficult; her midwifery course had 16 places, and that year she had almost 1,000 applicants.
(4) Morrissey made his first TV appearance in a period drama Stumbling accidentally on to the Coronation Street set as a teenager, Morrissey found himself accosted by a woman bearing a bundle of scripts.
(5) Apparently so – but with social media in meltdown at the prospect of Peter Dutton’s black-garbed men accosting strangers and demanding their papers, the under-the-clocks press conference quickly descended into predictable chaos.
(6) As we walk near his home – Moore greeting local business owners and passersby like old friends, or posing for pictures with strangers who accost him, street art by Shepard Fairey and D*Face on every other wall – it feels like hipster heaven: the wide streets and unbroken blue sky a Californian antidote to the claustrophobic and hypercompetitive buzz-chasing of east London or Brooklyn.
(7) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
(8) This, in my view, is a much graver breach of BBC guidelines than giving unchallenged airtime to one political party but not others, as the bosses are the people who possess real power – those, in other words, whom the BBC has the greatest duty to accost.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a heartbreaking scene in which the wonderfully plump Sara, Emma's six-year-old sister, is accosted by a (female) lifeguard who asks where her bikini top is: "She's on her way to becoming a woman, she should be covered."
(10) A week later, police accosted a friend of mine as she was leaving a dinner.
(11) Photo: Steve Ullathorne Rhys Darby: The chap from the rural working men's club who accosted me in the toilets after a gig with the line, "How many people have told you you're funny?
(12) In the pre-dawn hours of June 18, 1989, four men accosted and fatally shot Dana Feitler, a University of Chicago business school student, in her posh Gold Coast neighborhood.
(13) In her intense refutations of my casual comments about cyclists, for example (I am not a cyclist and have just nearly been run over by one; she was chair of the all-party cycling group), I can still hear the earnest young campaigner who once accosted a graffiti artist and lectured him about his social responsibility.
(14) After being accosted on the stairs by other residents, she was too frightened to use the communal kitchen to heat her daughter’s milk or her own food.
(15) When he was accosted by a security guard, Jackson said: “I just needed another jacket, man.” A few months later Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana.
(16) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
(17) Another woman – small and dark-haired – was the one who accosted the assailant first."
(18) Helal Raman, a local Labour activist who had appeared in the Panorama programme, claimed he had been accosted by one of Rahman's supporters as they filed past the body of a recently deceased mutual friend at a mosque.
(19) Subsequently, another tabloid discovered Paddick's then partner was on a particular transatlantic flight, and was able to accost him: "The inference must be that private information was obtained."
(20) "A police officer jumped out of his truck to try to halt the gruesome attack and was accosted by the crowd and accused of being a traitor.
Threaten
Definition:
(v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
(v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.
(v. i.) To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(3) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(5) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(6) Active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is associated with immunosuppression and predisposes to the development of life-threatening superinfections in immunocompromised patients.
(7) A paraesophageal hernia may be life-threatening and requires surgical correction when diagnosed.
(8) It is concluded that based on readily available clinical criteria at the time of admission, a subgroup of patients at low risk for developing life-threatening complications requiring coronary care unit interventions can be identified and admitted directly to an intermediate-care unit.
(9) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
(10) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
(11) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(12) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(13) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(14) Interferon alfa-2a appears to induce the early regression of life-threatening corticosteroid-resistant hemangiomas of infancy.
(15) The notion of life-threatening dermatoses may seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in fact there are a number of serious dermatologic conditions that require prompt attention to prevent fatal consequences.
(16) Ninety women with a positive pregnancy test and signs and symptoms of threatened abortion or ectopic pregnancy had endovaginal and abdominal sonography in order to compare the value of the two techniques for the detection of gestational abnormalities.
(17) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(18) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(19) Obstetrician-gynecologists must place lymphocytic adenohypophysitis in the differential diagnosis of pituitary enlargement associated with pregnancy, since treatment is available and the sequelae may be life-threatening.
(20) They have repeatedly threatened to derail the country's progress," Kassem added.