All 12 Uses of
approach
in
Chandra's Wars
- He gets up slowly and waves as I approach.
Chpt 2.14 *approach = get near
- When Granny sees me approach, she waves them away.
Chpt 4.27approach = come near
- As they approach, more troops emerge from the bush around the plain.
Chpt 5.40approach = get near
- As we approach, I notice four rocket launchers on its rooftop.
Chpt 5.40
- I approach cautiously.†
Chpt 3.20
- She tells how Mandiki boasted that his cousin had radioed from Shawshe; he'd fired rocket-propelled grenades at the jeeps as they approached from Tiro, and escaped into the brush.†
Chpt 3.26
- Two officers approach us: an older man with a notepad and a walkie-talkie, accompanied by a young man barely old enough to have pimples.†
Chpt 3.26
- We approach the edge of the high ground on our knees.†
Chpt 4.32
- They settle, twist their necks, and stare, feathers raised, daring us to approach.†
Chpt 4.34
- We slow down approaching the place where the flatbed truck was ambushed.†
Chpt 5.41
- We approach Bonang.†
Chpt 5.42
- Iris approaches warily, then plunks herself down between us.†
Chpt 5.44
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.