All 8 Uses

approach
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Queen of Attolia
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Crowds got thicker as they approached the harbor.†
Chpt 8
Dawn was approaching, and their drivers cursed as the horses moved a step at a time toward the market gate out of the city.†
Chpt 8 *
Eddis approached but stopped about five feet from him.†
Chpt 11
He'd heard her footsteps and had pulled himself to attention by the time she approached.†
Chpt 14
The officers and ministers approached, variously grave or embarrassed.†
Chpt 16
The doorway of the tent was open, and as Attolia approached, she looked past the sentry's shoulder into the warm light of the lamp hanging on the central tent post.†
Chpt 16
As she approached, Eugenides lifted his head to look over the queen's shoulder at the Mede.†
Chpt 16
As the queen approached, Eugenides dropped his eyes.†
Chpt 16

Definitions:

(1) (approach as in: approached the city)
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
(2) (approach as in: use the best approach)
a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal)
to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
(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.