Synonyms for approaches
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : uh-prohch |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈproʊtʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for approaches Other synonyms for the word approaches
- accession
- accost
- advance
- advent
- appeal to
- application
- apply to
- approximate
- avenue
- be comparable to
- be like
- bear
- belly up to
- beseech
- border
- buzz
- catch up
- close in
- come at
- come close
- coming
- commence
- compare with
- confer
- consult
- converge
- correspond to
- course
- crack
- creep up
- draw near
- drawing near
- embark
- entrance
- entreat
- equal
- feel one out
- fling
- gain on
- gate
- give a play
- give a tumble
- go
- go toward
- idea
- impend
- implore
- landing
- lick
- loom up
- make advance
- make overture
- make up to
- manner
- match
- means
- meet
- method
- mode
- modus operandi
- move in on
- move toward
- near
- nearing
- new wrinkle
- offer
- overture
- passage
- path
- plead
- procedure
- program
- progress
- proposal
- propose
- proposition
- reach
- reaching
- resemble
- road
- set about
- shot
- sound out
- speak to
- stab
- start
- style
- supplicate
- surround
- take after
- take aside
- talk to
- technique
- threaten
- thumb
- tumble
- undertake
- verge upon
- way
- whack
- wrinkle
Définition of approaches
Origin :- c.1300, from Anglo-French approcher, Old French aprochier "approach, come closer" (12c., Modern French approcher), from Late Latin appropiare "go nearer to," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + Late Latin propiare "come nearer," comparative of Latin prope "near" (see propinquity). Replaced Old English neahlæcan.
- noun way, means of arriving
- noun request, suggestion
- noun plan of attack, resolution
- verb come nearer
- verb make request, suggestion
- verb begin
- One approaches the whole of history from a different standpoint.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- By road and railway he approaches daily nearer to the scene.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- But you come to grapples in the defence of comfort when night approaches.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- The approaches of death, during the interval just named, had been slow but certain.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 » by Various
- Anything that approaches gibbering cannot be too strongly condemned.
- Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various
- She is the idyll of our shanty, and our regard for her approaches to idolatry.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- The ideal then approaches nearer to us, and we fondly cling to it.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- The approaches to the Malakoff and the Redan were not attended with greater peril.
- Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
- The Euthydemus is, of all the Dialogues of Plato, that in which he approaches most nearly to the comic poet.
- Extract from : « Euthydemus » by Plato
- These chairs were still empty, and the mount and its approaches were kept clear.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
Antonyms for approaches
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