Approaching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPROACHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• APPROACH, to come near to
• come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance or time
• come close to (a number, level, or standard) in quality or quantity
• bring nearer
• speak to (someone) for the first time about a proposal or request
• start to deal with (a situation or problem) in a certain way
NOUN:
• a way of dealing with a situation or problem
• an initial proposal or request made to someone
• behaviour intended to propose personal or sexual relations with someone
• the action of coming near or nearer to someone or something in distance or time
• an approximation to something
• a road, sea passage, or other way leading to a place
• The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
• the event of one object coming closer to another
• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
• the act of drawing spatially closer to something
• the part of an aircraft's flight in which it descends gradually towards an airfield or runway for landing
ADJECTIVE:
• of the relatively near future
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to come near or nearer to

Words related to APPROACHING

approach17 approached20 approaches19

How to use APPROACHING in a sentence

• She had traveled about it three times, but never approaching nearer than a man could have reached with a rifle barrel.
• The Whigs and the Abolitionists were plainly approaching each other.
• Delano again spoke of the approaching twilight, and with mutual caresses they bade each other adieu.
• Though approaching middle life she was still beautiful, having wild black eyes, and creamy pale face.
• On one occasion, not long before his decease, in one of his familiar conversations with them, he let fall a remark which implied that his end might be approaching.
• The last few days before the event of the term came, and found the first eleven in something approaching their old form.
• Towards that approaching fear, Alcatraz turned his head.
• I felt, therefore, no surprise when I saw that I was approaching, through a field at the back of my garden, the old elm-tree.
• They all agreed the reason for his suicide was his fear of approaching blindness.
• The winter was now approaching, but the Persian monarch still kept the field.
• Behind us we could hear the sound of footsteps rapidly approaching, soft quick footsteps, muffled and almost noiseless upon the spongy turf.
• The existing condition of humanity is approaching its termination.
• When he realized the danger he was approaching, it was too late to retreat, owing to the terrific power of the current that was bearing him to the falls.
• He checked his horse, as he saw Fergus approaching.
• Ere he could reply he heard the door open, and observed a tall white figure approaching him.
• The silence was suddenly interrupted by the sound of approaching footsteps, and around the nearest corner glided the cowering figure of a man.
• This mysterious people must have had a life as wonderful as that of Greece or Rome or Egypt, whose territories we find them everywhere approaching, but nowhere invading.
• As I was approaching the armory I thought I saw a light in one of the windows.
• We were then approaching the small island Trinidad.
• In consequence of this conjecture, two men were sent off to watch them, who on approaching the boat, saw five or six Malays leap from the jungle, and hurry on board of her.
• Roman civilization was approaching the zenith of its ascendancy.
• He was just about to draw them when he saw the Caliph approaching.
• Then they began approaching the camp, barking like dogs as they advanced.
• One of the figures that sat with its back to the dull glow saw her approaching.
• While sitting there doubled up and unable to sleep, he heard the confused sound of many voices in the distance gradually approaching to where he was.
• Five or six men were approaching, bearing, between them, something on some boards.

Similar words containing APPROACH without suffix ing

approach17 approached20 approaches19 approachable23 unapproached22 inapproachable25 inapproachably28 unapproachable25 unapproachably28 approachability29 unapproachabili26 approachabiliti26 approachabilities28 unapproachability31 unapproachabilities30

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