EGAVE

approach

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 130.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
    She approached the door cautiously.
  2. verb To play an approach shot.
  3. verb Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
    He approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  4. verb Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
    As we drove along the driveway, the trees approaching the house seemed more eerie.
  5. verb To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
    “Would counsel please approach the bench?” asked the judge.
  6. verb To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
  7. verb Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
  8. verb To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).

Similar words

draw near coming come on advance set about access near overture go up go about

Often followed by

to is of the and in was that has

Word family

approach shot approach shots approachable approached approaches approaching

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