approaching

• COUNT in NET: 26 in 26 verses (in OT : 17 in 17 verses) (in NT : 9 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

approaching, 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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

approaching

about to be, advancing, already in sight, approximate, approximating, approximative, arm-in-arm, arriving, asymptotic, at hand, attracted to, brewing, burning, centripetal, centrolineal, cheek-by-jowl, close, close at hand, coming, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, converging, desired, destinal, destined, determined, drawn to, emergent, entering, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, focal, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hand-in-hand, hereafter, homeward, homeward-bound, hoped-for, hot, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inbound, incoming, instant, intimate, inward-bound, later, looming, lowering, lurking, meeting, menacing, mutually approaching, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearing, nearish, nigh, nighish, on the horizon, oncoming, overhanging, planned, plotted, predicted, preparing, probable, projected, prophesied, propinque, prospective, proximal, proximate, radial, radiating, side-by-side, tangent, tangential, that will be, threatening, to come, to-be, ultimate, uniting, upcoming, vicinal, waiting, warm

ROGET THESAURUS

approaching

Approach

N approach, approximation, appropinquation, access, appulse, afflux, affluxion, advent, pursuit, approaching, approximative, affluent, impending, imminent, on the road, Int, come hither!, approach!, here!, come!, come near!, forward!.