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approaching 音标拼音: [əpr'otʃɪŋ] 侵入 侵入 approaching adj 1: of the relatively near future; " the approaching election"; " this coming Thursday"; " the forthcoming holidays"; " the upcoming spring fashions" [ synonym: { approaching}, { coming( a)}, { forthcoming}, { upcoming}] n 1: the event of one object coming closer to another [ synonym: { approach}, { approaching}] 2: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; " the approach of winter" [ synonym: { approach}, { approaching}, { coming}] 3: the act of drawing spatially closer to something; " the hunter' s approach scattered the geese" [ synonym: { approach}, { approaching}, { coming}] Approach \ Ap* proach"\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Approached}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Approaching}.] [ OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad propiare to draw near, prope near.] 1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. [ 1913 Webster] Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? -- 2 Sam. xi. 20. [ 1913 Webster] But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. -- Heb. x. 25. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. [ 1913 Webster]
Approaching \ Ap* proach" ing\, n. ( Hort.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 108 Moby Thesaurus words for " approaching": about to be, advancing, already in sight, approximate, approximating, approximative, arm- in- arm, arriving, asymptotic, at hand, attracted to, brewing, burning, centripetal, centrolineal, cheek- by- jowl, close, close at hand, coming, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, converging, desired, destinal, destined, determined, drawn to, emergent, entering, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, focal, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hand- in- hand, hereafter, homeward, homeward- bound, hoped- for, hot, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inbound, incoming, instant, intimate, inward- bound, later, looming, lowering, lurking, meeting, menacing, mutually approaching, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearing, nearish, nigh, nighish, on the horizon, oncoming, overhanging, planned, plotted, predicted, preparing, probable, projected, prophesied, propinque, prospective, proximal, proximate, radial, radiating, side- by- side, tangent, tangential, that will be, threatening, to come, to- be, ultimate, uniting, upcoming, vicinal, waiting, warm
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