Usually means: Approached aggressively or confrontationally.
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  1. accosted: Merriam-Webster
  2. accosted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. accosted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Accosted, accosted: Wordnik
  5. accosted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. accosted: Wiktionary
  7. accosted: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Accosted, accosted: Dictionary.com
  9. accosted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Accosted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. accosted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Accosted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. accosted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. accosted: FreeDictionary.org
  15. accosted: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. Accosted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accosted: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (accosted)

▸ adjective:  (heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges.
▸ adjective:  (heraldry) Side by side.

Similar:
come up to, solicit, address, accolé, jessant, interfretted, enté en point, surmounted, anchored, embattled, more...

Opposite:
unapproached, unaccosted

Types:
harassed, molested, annoyed, bothered, pestered, hounded, more...



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Similar:
come up to, solicit, address, accolé, jessant, interfretted, enté en point, surmounted, anchored, embattled, more...

Opposite:
unapproached, unaccosted

Types:
harassed, molested, annoyed, bothered, pestered, hounded, more...



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