Word Finder - approaching

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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.

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The act of coming closer; an approach.

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That approaches or approach.

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the approaching armies

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Nearly.

Her voice was approaching panic.

She shrugged and glanced at Bordeaux, who was approaching the fire.

Jonny argued, approaching her.

Felipa smiled and glanced up to see Alex approaching them.

Thinking about approaching the conversation and actually starting the conversation were two entirely different things.

Approaching from behind, she noticed a bottle of scotch on the table, along with the two glasses.

In the 15th century the time was approaching when the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope was to widen the scope of geographical enterprise.

She counted the seconds in tense silence, waiting for the sound of an explosion, but the only sound was a car approaching from below.

The highway ahead of them was clear, except for one big truck coming their way... and a car approaching the highway to their right.

Just approaching the subject was verboten.

Approaching, she exclaimed, What a beautiful estate!

Approaching Elisabeth's house, Jackson felt rattled with uncertainty.

Her father fell back, and she took a deep breath before approaching the men.

Finally, approaching noon, we crossed over a wide stream.

There was no humidity, an ideal temperature and enough of a breeze to perfume the air with the zillion flowers recently wakened after a tough winter or per­haps just planted to welcome the approaching summer season.

A crisis was now approaching in foreign affairs which demanded all the experience and all the genius of Hastings for its solution.

The man approaching her had nearly reached her, and she huddled into a tighter ball.

Cramped, she stretched before approaching him again.

A fisher­man had thought he'd sighted a body in the bay, but it was too far away to confirm and, with night approaching, the shape was lost in the darkening swells.

It sat at her feet and stared at the llama approaching the fence.

At the end of the year, when the Austrians were approaching Pesth, he asked for the mediation of Mr Stiles, the American envoy.

I often performed this duty of hospitality, waited long enough to milk a whole herd of cows, but did not see the man approaching from the town.

What would have happened if on approaching Tarutino, Napoleon had attacked the Russians with but a tenth of the energy he had shown when he attacked them at Smolensk?

On approaching Tarutino Kutuzov noticed cavalrymen leading their horses to water across the road along which he was driving.

Among the trees a man with long legs and long, swinging arms, wearing a short jacket, bast shoes, and a Kazan hat, was approaching with long, light steps.

With a final glance at the approaching figures, she dropped from the wagon seat and sauntered over to join the men at the cook fire.

How about approaching this scientifically?

Han asked, extending his hand as if approaching a wounded animal.

She heard the soft step of someone approaching and turned, surprised.

He took her hand and they started down the stairs together, approaching the wolf with reticence.

Memon chuckled and rose, approaching.

In 1901 Professor Furtwangler began a more systematic excavation of the site, and the new discoveries he then made, together with a fresh and complete study of the figures and fragments in Munich, have led to a rearrangement of the whole, which, if not certain in all details, may be regarded as approaching finality.

The edge of the abysmal area comes close to the eastern coasts of Tasmania and New South Wales, approaching to within 60 m.

I felt approaching footsteps, I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother.

There was running to and fro and whispering; another troyka flew furiously up, and then all eyes were turned on an approaching sleigh in which the figures of the Emperor and Volkonski could already be descried.

He was already approaching her and stopped just before his body met hers.

Schmidt gave himself out as the incarnation of Enoch, and prophesied the approaching fall of the Church of Rome, the overthrow of the ancient sacraments, and the triumph of flagellation as the only road to salvation.

The district is subject to very heavy rainfall approaching r50 in.

Apart from points of doctrine which can be more or less definitely stated (not always with unanimity) Quakerism is an atmosphere, a manner of life, a method of approaching questions, a habit and; attitude of mind.

Count Stanislas Russell, a naval officer, was sent on a mission to the Red Sea in 1857, and he reported strongly on the necessity of a French establishment in that region in view of the approaching completion of the Suez Canal.

In this hopeless state of affairs a false report reached Emmet at one of his depots at nine o'clock in the evening that the military were approaching.

Some served their avowed object with great success, being powerful instruments in the anti-papal polemic and sustaining the revolted Franciscans in their hope of an approaching triumph.

Meanwhile, within the Ottoman Empire there was every sign of a rapidly approaching disintegration.

The surface of the inland ice forms in a transverse section from the west to the east coast an extremely regular curve, almost approaching an arc of a wide circle, which along Nansen's route has its highest ridge somewhat nearer the east than the west coast.

Approaching the coasts from the interior, the snow of the surface gradually changes its structure.

All these docks were constructed by the Bute family at a cost approaching three millions sterling.

Wellington had insufficient siege equipment and transport for heavy guns; five assaults failed, and Soult (having left Suchet in Valencia) and also the Army of Portugal were both approaching, so Wellington withdrew on the night of the Retreat 21st of October, and, directing the evacuation of from Madrid, commenced the "Retreat from Burgos."

Sir Thomas Graham commenced the active siege of San Sebastian on the 10th of July 1813, but as Soult was approaching to its relief, the assault was ordered for daylight on the 24th.

Every one felt that a catastrophe was approaching.

In July 1628 Kepler accordingly arrived with his family at Sagan in Silesia, where he applied himself to the printing of his ephemerides up to the year 1636, and whence he issued, in 1629, a Notice to the Curious in Things Celestial, warning astronomers of approaching transits.