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Approaching   /əprˈoʊtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Approaching

adjective
1.
Of the relatively near future.  Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming.  "This coming Thursday" , "The forthcoming holidays" , "The upcoming spring fashions"
noun
1.
The event of one object coming closer to another.  Synonym: approach.
2.
The temporal property of becoming nearer in time.  Synonyms: approach, coming.
3.
The act of drawing spatially closer to something.  Synonyms: approach, coming.


Approach

verb
(past & past part. approached; pres. part. approaching)
1.
Move towards.  Synonyms: come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near.  "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
2.
Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character.  Synonym: border on.  "His playing approaches that of Horowitz"
3.
Begin to deal with.  Synonyms: go about, set about.  "Go about a difficult problem" , "Approach a new project"
4.
Come near in time.  Synonym: come near.  "Approaching old age"
5.
Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion.



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"Approaching" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lee, they perceived, had got under weigh, and was slowly approaching the Jasper B. in the moonlight. They watched her gradual approach in silence. She stopped within a few yards of the Jasper B., and a voice which Cleggett recognized as that of Wilton Barnstable, the ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... tent Annadoah stood, one hand shading her eyes as they pierced the radiant distance. From the mountain passes behind the village echoed the joyous howls of approaching dogs. Something stirred in the heart of Annadoah—something fluttered there like the ...
— The Eternal Maiden • T. Everett Harre
... We were now approaching the most dangerous part of our voyage, the passage across Melville Bay, which may be considered the north-eastern corner of Baffin's Bay. Ships may be sailing among open ice, when, a south-westerly wind springing up, it may suddenly be pressed down upon them with irresistible force, and ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... was at evening hours, For then he lost his fear, But most before approaching showers, Or when a ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... walk day after day through the cool scented forest and sleep at night in one of the clean country inns. You must choose your district and your inn, for if you went right off the traveller's track and came to a peasant's house you would find nothing approaching the civilisation of an English farmhouse. But in most of the beautiful country districts of Germany there are fine inns, and there are invariably good roads leading to them. This way of travelling ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick


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