Accost vs Lure - What's the difference?
accost | lure |
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
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, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
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, passage = The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
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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.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
* Milton
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
(obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
* Spenser
* Fuller
To solicit sexually.
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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As verbs the difference between accost and lure
is that accost is to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request while lure is to attract by temptation etc; to entice.As nouns the difference between accost and lure
is that accost is (rare) address; greeting while lure is something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.accost
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- Him, Satan thus accosts .
- 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."
- the shores which to the sea accost
- so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea
Derived terms
* accostmentAnagrams
*lure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
- (Knight)
