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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



... CARLOS (approaching him with eagerness). You have been so till now. Hate me no more, And I will love you dearly as a son: But hate me now no longer! Oh, how sweet, Divinely sweet it is to feel our being Reflected in another's beauteous soul; To see our joys gladden another's ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... takes Yama to be 'a character suggested by the setting sun'—a claim which is also put forward, as we have seen, for the Maori hero Maui. It is Yama, according to the Rig Veda, who sends the birds—a pigeon is one of his messengers (compare the White Bird of the Oxenhams)—as warnings of approaching death. Among the Iranian race, Yima appears to have been the counterpart of the Vedic Yama. He is now King of the Blessed; originally he was the first of men over whom Death won ...
— Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang
... returning With a pageantry so bright, That the shadow-clad usurpers Fled in ignominious fright. As he saw the hosts approaching Through a cloud of battle smoke, Charging wildly down upon him, He, in sudden fear, awoke. As he looked, the blackened heavens Splashed with demon-tinted blood From the hue of burning prairie Throbbed above the fiery flood. Leaping o'er the rounded bluff-tops, Down the valley's long incline, ...
— Nancy MacIntyre • Lester Shepard Parker
... direction was another bear, a bear larger than Mokwa and scarred with the evidences of many battles, a bear who trod the forest with a calm air of ownership. Across Mokwa's mind flashed the memory of a certain tree with his own signature the highest save one. The owner of that one was now approaching with the evident intention of claiming ...
— Followers of the Trail • Zoe Meyer
... and of the retreat of Tilly, and lost not a moment in prosecuting his designs against Mentz. Failing in an attempt to cross the Rhine at Cassel, under the cannon of the besieged, he directed his march toward the Bergstrasse, with a view of approaching the town from an opposite quarter. Here he quickly made himself master of all the places of importance, and at Stockstadt, between Gernsheim and Oppenheim, appeared a second time upon the banks of the Rhine. The whole of the Bergstrasse was abandoned ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)


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