Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to approach
Participle: approached
Gerund: approaching
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | approach |
| you | approach |
| he;she;it | approaches |
| we | approach |
| you | approach |
| they | approach |
Perfect
| I | have approached |
| you | have approached |
| he;she;it | has approached |
| we | have approached |
| you | have approached |
| they | have approached |
Past
| I | approached |
| you | approached |
| he;she;it | approached |
| we | approached |
| you | approached |
| they | approached |
Pluperfect
| I | had approached |
| you | had approached |
| he;she;it | had approached |
| we | had approached |
| you | had approached |
| they | had approached |
Future
| I | will approach |
| you | will approach |
| he;she;it | will approach |
| we | will approach |
| you | will approach |
| they | will approach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have approached |
| you | will have approached |
| he;she;it | will have approached |
| we | will have approached |
| you | will have approached |
| they | will have approached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | approach |
| you | approach |
| he;she;it | approach |
| we | approach |
| you | approach |
| they | approach |
Perfect
| I | have approached |
| you | have approached |
| he;she;it | have approached |
| we | have approached |
| you | have approached |
| they | have approached |
Imperfect
| I | approached |
| you | approached |
| he;she;it | approached |
| we | approached |
| you | approached |
| they | approached |
Pluperfect
| I | had approached |
| you | had approached |
| he;she;it | had approached |
| we | had approached |
| you | had approached |
| they | had approached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would approach |
| you | would approach |
| he;she;it | would approach |
| we | would approach |
| you | would approach |
| they | would approach |
Perfect
| I | would have approached |
| you | would have approached |
| he;she;it | would have approached |
| we | would have approached |
| you | would have approached |
| they | would have approached |
Imperative
| you | approach |
| we | Let's approach |
| you | approach |
Verbs conjugated like 'approach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'approach'
abroach,
accroach,
appeach,
proach,
reapproach,
reproach,
appreesh,
approbate,
appromt,
appropre,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English aprochen, borrowed from Old French aprochier (modern French approcher), from Late Latin appropiāre, a verb based on Latin prope (“near”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (a variant of *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + *-kʷe (“suffix forming distributives from interrogatives”)). See: Old French '
aprochier', French '
approcher'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] holding on, they were all heaped together in one corner of a long sofa—a fixture extending entirely across the cabin—where they clung to each other in momentary expectation of being drowned. When I approached this place with my specific, and was about to administer it with many consolatory expressions to the nearest sufferer, what was my dismay to see them all roll slowly down to the other end ! And [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Now, it had so happened that, in approaching the door, Eliza had caught enough of the conversation to know that a trader was making offers to her master for somebody.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] this chapter to discuss. Neither will I more than hint at my foreigner-like mistake in supposing that a party of most active persons, who scrambled on board at the peril of their lives as we approached the wharf, were newsmen, answering to that industrious class at home; whereas, despite the leathern wallets of news slung about the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] odds and ends stuck all about it, that it looked like a bird’s-nest. She was radiant with imaginary jewels; wore a rich pair of undoubted gold spectacles; and gracefully dropped upon her lap, as we approached, a very old greasy newspaper, in which I dare say she had been reading an account of her own presentation at some Foreign Court.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Our leader has his hand upon the latch of ‘Almack 's, ’ and calls to us from the bottom of the steps; for the assembly-room of the Five Point fashionables is approached by a descent. Shall we go in? It is but a moment.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] No. 1, so we belong to coach No. 1. I throw my coat on the box, and hoist my wife and her maid into the inside. It has only one step, and that being about a yard from the ground, is usually approached by a chair: when there is no chair, ladies trust in Providence. The coach holds nine inside, having a seat across from door to door, where we in England put our legs: so that there is only one feat [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The same decay and gloom that overhang the way by which it is approached, hover above the town of Richmond. There are pretty villas and cheerful houses in its streets, and Nature smiles upon the country round; but jostling its handsome residences, like slavery itself [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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On the Monday evening, furnace fires and clanking hammers on the banks of the canal, warned us that we approached the termination of this part of our journey. After going through another dreamy place—a long aqueduct across the Alleghany River, which was stranger than the bridge at Harrisburg, being a vast, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Tom, therefore, had spread out full before him, in plantation after plantation, a map of the life to which he was approaching.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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approaches its end. 25 ill-fated missives were savagely launched into likely oblivion,
(Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters)
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approaching the unimaginable, but this is now inconceivable.
(Disclosure Day)
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approaching the unimaginable, but this is now inconceivable.
(Disclosure Day)