accompany

Verb

accompany (third-person singular simple present accompanies, present participle accompanying, simple past and past participle accompanied)

1. (transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
   • Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.
   • The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.1804, Richard Glover, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   Synonyms:

   attend, escort, go with

2. (transitive) To supplement with; add to.
   • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
3. (intransitive) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
4. (transitive) To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).
   • The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.
   • I will accompany her on the oboe.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
   • Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompanied together.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).
7. (obsolete, transitive) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
   • Gijb, Suche as accompanyeth with man-killers and murtherers.1534, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius
8. To be found at the same time.
   • Thunder almost always accompanies lightning during a rain storm.