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appropinquating

appropinquating is the present participle and gerund of appropinquate.

Meaning of appropinquate

Verb

appropinquate (third-person singular simple present appropinquates, present participle appropinquating, simple past and past participle appropinquated)

  1. (ambitransitive, literary, rare) To approach; to near.
    • The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets.1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 67

Questions about appropinquating

What is appropinquating the present participle and gerund of?
Appropinquating is the present participle and gerund of appropinquate.

Words near appropinquating in the dictionary

  1. approofs
  2. appropes
  3. appropinquate
  4. appropinquated
  5. appropinquates
  6. appropinquating
  7. appropinquation
  8. appropinquations
  9. appropinquity
  10. approportionate
  11. approportionated

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