All 7 Uses
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I Am Malala
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- While boys and men could roam freely about town, my mother and I could not go out without a male relative to accompany us, even if it was a five-year-old boy!
p. 26.5 *accompany = travel with
- The idea was they would be able to stop a woman accompanied by a man and require her to prove that the man was her relative.
p. 97.4accompanied = travelling with
- We also heard that Taliban had attacked a shopkeeper because an unaccompanied woman was looking at the lipsticks in his beauty shop.
p. 169.9unaccompanied = unescortedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccompanied means not and reverses the meaning of accompanied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- "There is a banner in the market saying women are not allowed to be in your shop unaccompanied by a male relative and you have defied us," they said.
p. 170.1
- Naturally they assumed that wherever I was sent, they would accompany me.
p. 268.3accompany = go with
- On Sunday afternoon my father was informed by the colonel that I would be leaving the next morning for the UK and only he was to accompany me, not my mother or my brothers.
p. 268.5
- "You are her parent, and if you don't accompany her she may not be accepted into the hospital in the UK," he said.
p. 270.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(accompany as in: accompany on the journey) to travel along with
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(2)
(accompany as in: the accompanying chart) to be present with at the same time and/or location -- sometimes provided to make something more complete or better
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(3)
(accompany as in: accompanied her in the performance) to perform with
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)