approached

Verb

approach (third-person singular simple present approaches, present participle approaching, simple past and past participle approached)

1. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
   • She approached the door cautiously.
2. (intransitive) To play an approach shot.
3. (ambitransitive, figuratively) 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. (intransitive, rare, transitive) 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. (also, figuratively, transitive) 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. (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
   • "My story is not long," said the artist; "but your honour had better sit while you listen to it." So saying, he approached to the fire a three-footed stool, and took another himself, […]1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page...

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