Antonyms for approachingap·proach·ing

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1. approach, approachingnoun

   the event of one object coming closer to another

   Antonyms:
   present(a), past

   Synonyms:
   approach, attack, advance, plan of attack, glide path, feeler, coming, access, glide slope, overture, approach path, approach shot

2. approach, approaching, comingnoun

   the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

   "the approach of winter"

   Antonyms:
   present(a), past

   Synonyms:
   climax, coming, feeler, advent, approach shot, glide path, glide slope, approach, approach path, orgasm, sexual climax, advance, attack, overture, access, plan of attack

3. approach, approaching, comingadjective

   the act of drawing spatially closer to something

   "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

   Antonyms:
   past, present(a)

   Synonyms:
   climax, coming, feeler, advent, approach shot, glide path, glide slope, approach, approach path, orgasm, sexual climax, advance, attack, overture, access, plan of attack

4. approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcomingadjective

   of the relatively near future

   "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

   Antonyms:
   present(a), past

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1. disinclined

   Submitted by anonymous on October 26, 2020  

How to use approaching in a sentence?

1. Bill Payne:

   We want to make sure that we have lots of windows so that administrators, people that are in charge, can see folks approaching the building.

2. Kim Parker:

   Women are having children later. But when we look at completed fertility, we haven’t seen that they’re necessarily having fewer children, just starting later, it represents a lag, not necessarily a completely different way in approaching family life.

3. Daniel Prude Lockhart:

   Just inherently, by Derek Chauvin being there and listening to the mental health person deal with a subject, that officer is getting better because they're seeing things that work, new ideas, a different way of approaching something.

4. Shana Chappell:

   They have that brothers' bond, as the one year( anniversary) was approaching, I didn't realize that Dakota Halverson hadn't really accepted that Kareem was gone. I just took it as we're all hurting because we all are. I didn't know Dakota Halverson was going to do that.

5. John Urquhart:

   There’s nothing standard about approaching a driver with a pistol out. That should not have happened.

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