Word Finder - approached

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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.

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as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

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To come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to.

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"Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.

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To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).

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To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.

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To take approaches to.

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To bring near; to cause to draw near.

He approached her favorite chair.

As they approached the building, a large group of people came out whooping and yelling.

She approached him, glaring up at him.

He approached her, and she took a step back.

Curious about the great animal, Yully approached the fence.

He left the corner and approached her, stopping when she took a step back.

Nicholas asked himself as the wolf approached him coming from the copse.

He approached a tree.

As we approached the end of the flawless narrative, one of us would invariably ask sardonically (but never sarcastically), "What could possibly go wrong?"

As she approached the barn, it was obvious that the door had been torn off its hinges.

His surprise appeared genuine as she approached.

A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and approached Kutuzov.

Murat approached the interpreter and told him to ask where the Russian army was.

That night as they prepared for bed, she approached Alex about it.

Lana approached him and paused within arm's reach.

She approached, a sad smile on her face.

Connor immediately approached him.

The home money market was approached by the Government through the issue of war loans.

Whilst all who approached the queen bore witness to her candour and reasonableness in relation to her ministers, all likewise proclaimed how anxiously she considered advice that was submitted to her before letting herself be persuaded that she must accept it for the good of her people.

At this juncture Gustavus was approached by Jakob Magnus Sprengtporten, a Finnish nobleman of determined character, who had incurred the enmity of the Caps, with the project of a revolution.

As we approached the house I saw a child standing in the doorway, and Captain Keller said, There she is.

When Alex approached Carmen about giving Tessa some money, she said it was up to him, but keep in mind that the issue could have been something like drugs.

He approached Sarah and held her by the throat.

She approached him and took his hand.

Gabriel approached her until he towered over her.

Jenn approached when he stilled.

Darian approached the obelisk and wrapped his arms around it.

When he did not respond, she approached.

They all shrank away as he approached.

The man stood and smiled as she approached.

The Grey God approached.

In others there is an approximation of the lateral stems towards the median ventral line (Drepanophorus); in a genus of Heteronemertines (Langia), on the other hand, an arrangement occurs by which the longitudinal stems are no longer lateral, but have more or less approached each other dorsally.

This corresponds to the second stage of magnetization, in which the susceptibility is large and permanent magnetization is set up. A still stronger magnetizing force has little effect except in causing the direction of the needles to approach still more nearly to that of the field; if the force were infinite, every member of the group ‘ would have exactly the same direction and the greatest possible resultant moment would be reached; this illustrates " magnetic saturation " - the condition approached in the third stage of magnetization.

It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely-cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.

When a wave of sound meets a surface separating two media it is in part reflected, travelling back from the surface into the first medium again with the velocity with which it approached.

Calling in the brigade detached to the assistance of Nozu as well as all other available fractions of his scattered army, he himself attacked 1 The 5th division of the 2nd Army had been sent to join the 10th as the latter approached Hsimucheng.

Herodotus, writing also in the 5th century B.C., describes the people of Lake Prasias as living in houses constructed on platforms supported on piles in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.

The gate is approached by a road commanded on one side by the city wall, on the other by a projecting tower.

On the summit, approached by a well-preserved flight of steps, are the remains of a palace of the Mycenaean age, similar to that found at Tiryns, though not so complicated or extensive.

Most of these consist merely of a chamber, usually square, excavated in the rock, and approached by a " dromos " or horizontal approach in the side of a hill.

It is approached by a horizontal avenue 20 ft.

The next deposits, as the scarps are approached, are greensands of "Selbornian" age, succeeded by Cenomanian, and locally by Turonian, sands.

In the middle ages the civilizing task of the Church was first approached in England.

He was considered to have approached Horace more nearly than any other modern poet, and a gold medal was given him by Pope Urban VIII.

The reluctant consent of the British cabinet was obtained and Talleyrand was approached as an equal.

The Parliament House, standing on the crown of the eastern hill, is a massive square brick building with a pillared freestone facade approached by a broad flight of steps.

Operating on this beam with a second prism, he found that the homogeneous light was not dispersed, and also that it was more refracted the nearer the point from which it was taken approached to the violet end of the spectrum RV.

As the city is approached from the bay, the river Liffey, which divides the city from west to east roughly into two equal parts, is seen to be lined with a fine series of quays.

In ancient times it was approached by the Canopic mouth, which was farther to the west.

In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.