All 4 Uses
approach
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
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- Odd that I never heard her approach.†
Chpt 36 *approach = getting near
- When I approach she looks up.†
Chpt 3
- He approaches me shyly, holding his hat in his hands.†
Chpt 21
- A great black void approached, taking shape into the beast.†
Chpt 30
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.