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Accosting
- verb - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- Greeted
- speak to someone
Accounted
- verb - be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something; "Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam"
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; "I can't account for the missing money"
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
Accouters
- verb - provide with military equipment
Accoutred
- verb - provide with military equipment
- provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military); "troops accoutered for battle"; "properly accoutered for the trip"
Accoutres
- verb - provide with military equipment
Accredits
- verb - ascribe an achievement to; "She was not properly credited in the program"
- grant credentials to; "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree"
- provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
Accreting
- verb - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"
- grow together (of plants and organs); "After many years the rose bushes grew together"
Accretion
- noun - (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- Any gradual increase in size as through growth or external addition.
- something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"
Accretive
- adjective - growing by accretion