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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Approach \Ap*proach"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Approached}; p. pr & vb n. {Approaching}.] [OE. approchen aprochen OF approcher LL appropriare fr L. ad + propiare to draw near prope near.] 1. To come or go near in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? --2 Sam. xi 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. --Heb. x. 25. 2. To draw near in a figurative sense to make advances; to approximate; as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Approaching \Ap*proach"ing\, 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: approaching adj 1: moving toward one [syn: {oncoming}] 2: of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: {coming(a)}, {forthcoming}, {upcoming}] n 1: the event of one object coming closer to another [syn: {approach}] 2: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter" [syn: {approach}, {coming}] 3: the act of drawing spatially closer to something "the hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: {approach}, {coming}]
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