approaching

Speech parts

1. approaching - Noun

2. approaching - Adjective

3. approaching - Verb

4. approaching - Adverb

6. approaching - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Approach

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

coming forthcoming approach advancing imminent upcoming Nearing oncoming looming arriving getting closer about around close come
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Antonyms

last different far away extensive external
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Hypernyms

move movement motion timing

Hyponyms

access closing closure run up landing approach

Phrases with the word

approaching commencement approaching stonegate period approaching persons approaching middle age approaching velocity people approaching middle age

Examples

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King Jr.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general. Robert Aumann

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell

A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. Arthur Cecil Pigou

Close letter words and terms

approaches approaches applied to learning approaches unnoticed approaching boldly approaching commencement approaching conclusion