- NEARS
- Approaches
- Gets closer
- Gets close
- Gets warm, clue-wise
- Comes close
- Inches closer
- Gets warmer
- Draws close
- Closes in on
- Impends
- Verges upon
- Narrows the gap
- Gets in the vicinity of
- Gets warmer on a search
- Approximates
- Creeps up on
- Starts to see, say
- Is on the horizon
- Starts to get to
- Gets around
- Gets closer to
- Gets warm, in a sense
- Closes the gap
- Comes closer
- Gets within a stone's throw of
- Zeros in on
- Gets close to
- Gets closer and closer to
- Gets warmer, in a game
- Moves toward
- Draws closer
- Gets within shouting distance of
- Isn't far from reaching
- Verges on
- Reduces one's distance from
- Almost reaches
- Is closer to reaching
- Sidles up to
- Comes close to
- Converges on
- Draws close to
- Closes on
- Homes in on
- Moves in on
- Opposite of "fades"
- Practically arrives
- Advances toward
- Moves towards
- Is imminent
- Zeroes in on
- Bears down on
- Is at hand.
- Draws nigh
- Gets warm, so to speak
- Bellies up to
- Draws closer to
- Verges.
- Proximates.
- Closes in.
- Comes nigh
- Gains upon
- Gets next to
- Gets into the vicinity
- Opposite of retreats
- Edges up on
- Gets 30-Down
- Gets warmer, perhaps
- Opposite of pulls away
- Leans toward
- Is on the verge of
- Starts to resemble
- Appropinquates
- Comes up to
- Advances on
- Narrows the gap with
- Edges up to
- Becomes imminent
- Gets warmer, so to speak
- Gets in the neighborhood of
- Gets warmer, say
- Looms, say
- Gets larger, visually
- Gets right up close
- Advances
- Gets warmer, in a way
- Comes closer to
- Appears bigger and bigger?
- Sidles close
- Comes in range
- Comes within reach
- Heads toward
- Gets warmer, in a sense
- Gets warm
