approaching

approaching has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Approach
• n.. The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
• n.. the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
• n.. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"
• n.. the event of one object coming closer to another
• a.. of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"