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Noun approaching has 3 senses

• approaching(n = noun.event) approach - the event of one object coming closer to another; Array
is a kind of motion, movement

• approaching(n = noun.attribute) approach, coming - the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"
is a kind of timing

• approaching(n = noun.act) approach, coming - the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
is a kind of motion, move, movement
has particulars: access, closing, closure, landing approach, run-up

Adjective approaching has 1 sense

• approaching(s = adj.all) coming, forthcoming, upcoming - of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

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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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Approach

N approach, approximation, appropinquation, access, appulse, afflux, affluxion, advent, pursuit, approaching, approximative, affluent, impending, imminent, on the road, Int, come hither!, approach!, here!, come!, come near!, forward!.

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