All 6 Uses

approach
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)
(Edited)

Through her mask, she reports that unfortunately a study has just today determined that the mines of District 13 are still too toxic to approach.
Chpt 11

approach = get near
I can hear other footsteps approaching.
Chpt 19

approaching = coming
It continues to approach at a steady pace.
Chpt 20

approach = get near
We walk down the nearest sand strip, approaching the Cornucopia with care, just in case the Careers are concealed there.
Chpt 23

approaching = moving nearer
Dangerous, but only if approached.
Chpt 27

approached = someone gets near
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow.
Chpt 27 *

approach = get near

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.