Definition of Approached

1. Verb. (past of approach) ¹

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Definition of Approached

1. approach [v] - See also: approach

Lexicographical Neighbors of Approached

apprizes
apprizing
appro
approach
approach-approach conflict
approach-avoidance conflict
approach path
approach pattern
approach shot
approach shots
approach trench
approachabilities
approachability
approachable
approachableness
approached (current term)
approacher
approachers
approaches
approachest
approacheth
approaching
approachless
approachment
approacht
approbate
approbated
approbates
approbating
approbation

Literary usage of Approached

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"When a young man wished to marry he approached the missionary, who would direct him to make the selection, and if the girl consented the pair were married ..."

2. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"When Coeur-de-Lion and his retinue approached this rude yet stately building, it was not, as at present, surrounded by external fortifications. ..."

3. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"At length they approached Stratus, which is the largest city in Acarnania, thinking that, if they could take it, the other places would soon come over to ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... increasing in velocity as the center is approached. There is further a strong updraft, a great decrease of pressure in the center, and the cloud column ..."

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