approaching
UK /əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ US /əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
adj 1adv 1noun 1
Definitions
adj
1
That approaches or approach.
the approaching armies
adv
1
Nearly.
The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?
noun
1
The act of coming closer; an approach.
But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
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