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/əprˈoʊtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Approaching n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

verb

Approach v. t.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. (Archaic)

To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. "He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer."

(Mil.) To take approaches to.

Approach v. i. (past & past part. approached; pres. part. approaching)

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. "Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city?" "But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

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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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