All 6 Uses of
approach
in
As I Lay Dying
- Cash's head turns slowly as we approach, his pale empty sad composed and questioning face following the red and empty curve; beside the bade wheel Jewel sits the horse, gazing straight ahead.
Chpt 30 *approach = get near
- Square, with a broken roof set at a single pitch, it leans in empty and shimmering dilapidation in the sunlight, a single broad window in two opposite walls giving onto the approaches of the path.†
Chpt 1
- He does not approach the bed.†
Chpt 12
- Jewel approaches.†
Chpt 37
- It just stands there, watching Mack over its shoulder, swinging its hind quarters toward him whenever he approaches.†
Chpt 50
- We approach the crest, where the street runs, where cars go back and forth; the mules haul the wagon up and onto the crest and the street.†
Chpt 52
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) 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.