• v.
    ⦿move towards
    lexical concept
  • The enemy army came nearer and nearer
  • They are drawing near
  • We were approaching our destination

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:approach
  2. enl:come near
  3. enl:come on
  4. enl:draw close
  5. enl:draw near
  6. enl:go up
  7. enl:near
wn:interlingual indexili:i32016
wn:eq synonymdn:nærme§2 sig

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • draw nearnear
  • approachcome nearcome ondraw closedraw neargo upnear