approached
- 1Simple past and past participle of approach.
The ship approached the harbor as fog rolled in.
She approached her boss with a new idea for the project.
Note
A regular -ed form. Because the verb usually takes a direct object, it needs no preposition: the ship approached the harbor, not approached to it. That direct object also makes the passive possible (she was approached about the job), where the participle means someone made advances to her. A following to belongs to the figurative intransitive use, as in a total that approached to the full amount.
approached is a form of approach
approach, verb: To come nearer to someone or something in distance or time, or to come close to a particular amount, level, or quality. Full entry
- Forms
- approachapproaches he/she/itapproaching -ing formapproached past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- approach → approached: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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