All 8 Uses
approach
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The Time Machine
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- There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach.†
Chpt 9 *approach = get near
- 'Then I heard voices approaching me.†
Chpt 3
- They started away, and then I could feel them approaching me again.†
Chpt 6
- No Morlocks had approached us.†
Chpt 7
- VIII 'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin.†
Chpt 8
- I lit a match, and as I did so, two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away.†
Chpt 9
- At first I did not realize their blindness, and struck furiously at them with my bar, in a frenzy of fear, as they approached me, killing one and crippling several more.†
Chpt 9
- As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(2)
(approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
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(3)
(approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.