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APPROACHED

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

APPROACHED is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

APPROACHED root APPROACH-ed

Word family

APPROACH 11 APPROACHES-es 11 APPROACHING-ing 11

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

APPROACHABLE 11 APPROACHABILITY 11 APPROACHABILITIES 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
    • She approached the door cautiously.
    • We were approached by a stranger asking for directions.
    • The deadline is fast approaching.
  2. intransitiveTo play an approach shot.
  3. ambitransitivefigurativelyUsed intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
    • He approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  4. intransitiveraretransitiveOf an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
    • As we drove along the driveway, the trees approaching the house seemed more eerie.
  5. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
    • “Would counsel please approach the bench?” asked the judge.
    • He approached the age of manhood.
  6. transitiveTo bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
  7. transitiveUsed when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
  8. transitiveTo attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
  9. transitiveTo bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
  10. archaiceuphemistictransitiveTo have sexual intercourse with (someone).
  11. transitiveTo take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
noun
  1. alsofigurativelyAn act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
  2. An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
  3. alsofigurativelyAn avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
  4. alsofigurativelyA path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
  5. figurativelyA manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
  6. archaicAn opportunity of drawing near; access.
  7. alsoattributiveThe way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
  8. alsoattributiveA specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
    • We flew the RNAV/GPS A approach to runway 16.
  9. The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
  10. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of approach shot.