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ACCOMPANY

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: accompanied   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform an accompaniment to

Example:

The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano

Synonyms:

accompany; follow; play along

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "accompany" is one way to...):

play (play on an instrument)

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

accompaniment (a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts)

accompanist (a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go or travel along with

Example:

The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "accompany" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accompany"):

walk (accompany or escort)

consort; run (keep company)

escort (accompany as an escort)

escort; see (accompany or escort)

tag along (go along with, often uninvited)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

accompaniment (the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be present or associated with an event or entity

Example:

this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries

Synonyms:

accompany; attach to; come with; go with

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accompany"):

co-occur with; collocate with; construe with; cooccur with; go with (go or occur together)

attend (to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result)

rule (have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

accompaniment (an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be a companion to somebody

Synonyms:

accompany; companion; company; keep company

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "accompany" is one way to...):

affiliate; associate; assort; consort (keep company with; hang out with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

accompaniment (the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them)

Credits

 Context examples: 

These can be accompanied by physical symptoms including chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or abdominal distress.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

If you could accompany me in that last step you might be of considerable service to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Always accompanied with an incapable motion of the head, but with no change of face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have seen Harrison called from his bunk to put properly away a misplaced paintbrush, and the two watches below haled from their tired sleep to accompany him and see him do it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Watson, I think that we shall accompany Dr. Huxtable back to the north of England.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises—champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves with accompanying ST elevation in leads V3 and V4, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.

(Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)