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Accost vs Abrupt - What's the difference?

accost | abrupt |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between accost and abrupt

is that accost is (obsolete) to adjoin; to lie alongside while abrupt is (obsolete) broken off .

As verbs the difference between accost and abrupt

is that accost is to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request while abrupt is (archaic) to tear off or asunder .

As nouns the difference between accost and abrupt

is that accost is (rare) address; greeting while abrupt is (poetic) something which is ; an abyss .

As an adjective abrupt is

(obsolete|rare) broken away (from restraint) .

accost

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
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  • (obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  • * So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
  • (obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  • * Milton
    • Him, Satan thus accosts .
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • 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."
  • (obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  • * Spenser
    • the shores which to the sea accost
  • * Fuller
    • so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea
  • To solicit sexually.

    • Derived terms

    * accostment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Address; greeting.

    • Anagrams

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    abrupt

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
  • Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
    • The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Henry VI Part I, II-iii
    • The cause of your abrupt departure.
  • Curt in manner; brusque; rude; uncivil; impolite.
  • Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
  • * (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
    • The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
  • (obsolete) Broken off.
  • Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
  • * (rfdate) (Thomson)
    • Tumbling through ricks abrupt .
  • (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
    • (Gray)

    Synonyms

    * (precipitous) broken, rough, rugged * (without time to prepare) brusque, sudden * (uncivil)blunt, brusque * (without transition) disconnected, unexpected

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To tear off or asunder.
  • * (rfdate) Sir T. (Browne)
    • Till death abrupts them.
  • To interrupt suddenly.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) Something which is ; an abyss.
  • * (rfdate) (Milton)
    • Over the vast abrupt .

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