All 11 Uses
approach
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- 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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(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.