All 11 Uses of
approach
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- The sunshade continued to approach slowly.†
Chpt 1approach = to come near or nearer
- As the day approached when he was to leave her for a comparatively long stay, she grew melting and affectionate, remembering his many acts of consideration and his repeated expressions of an ardent attachment.
Chpt 24 *approached = got near
- She felt moved to read the book in secret and solitude, though none of the others had done so,—to hide it from view at the sound of approaching footsteps.†
Chpt 4
- There was the sound of approaching voices.†
Chpt 7
- When the voices of the bathers were heard approaching, Robert said good-night.†
Chpt 10
- XXI Some people contended that the reason Mademoiselle Reisz always chose apartments up under the roof was to discourage the approach of beggars, peddlars and callers.†
Chpt 21
- The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them.†
Chpt 24
- He had met her before on other occasions, but she had seemed to him unapproachable until that day.†
Chpt 25unapproachable = unable to get closer tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unapproachable means not and reverses the meaning of approachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching, assisted in removing Edna's dripping mackintosh.†
Chpt 26
- you cannot deceive me," and Mademoiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play.†
Chpt 26
- Once she thought she heard Mademoiselle Reisz approaching.†
Chpt 33
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.