Usually means: Moved closer to someone, something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. approached: Merriam-Webster
  2. approached: Collins English Dictionary
  3. approached: Vocabulary.com
  4. Approached, approached: Wordnik
  5. approached: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. approached: Wiktionary
  7. Approached, approached: Dictionary.com
  8. approached: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Approached: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Approached: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. approached: FreeDictionary.org
  12. approached: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. approached: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approached: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approached: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approached: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approached: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (approach)

verb:  (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
verb:  (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
verb:  (transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
verb:  (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
verb:  (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
verb:  (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
noun:  (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
noun:  An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
noun:  (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
noun:  (climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
noun:  (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
noun:  (archaic) An opportunity of drawing near; access.
noun:  (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
noun:  A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
noun:  (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
noun:  (golf, tennis) Short for approach shot. [(golf) Any shot, normally not when teeing off, aimed to land on the green, hit for accuracy more than power.]
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