approaching

That approaches or approach.not-comparable

• the approaching armies

Nearly.not-comparable

• The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been

present participle and gerund of approachform-ofgerundparticiple

• The army was approaching from the north.

The act of coming closer; an approach.

• But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.