0 past simple and past participle of accost --
1 to go up to or stop and speak to someone in a threatening way: --
The van can no longer be confiscated if they are accosted and accused of indulging in poaching.
If you are holding somebody's hand you are neither being accosted nor importuned; you are agreeing with.
It has happend to my wife that she has been accosted two or three times by kerb-crawling cars, and it is most unpleasant.
I have accosted perhaps fifty to eighty strangers in the streets and on the roads, including two engine drivers and firemen.
I was accosted by a male member of a golf club in my constituency.
I recently dealt with the case of a constituent whose son had been accosted and threatened on a train.
He said that a man who was once wandering over a large estate was accosted by the owner and upbraided.
I wondered whether she had accosted anybody that night at all.
