Usually means: Approaches or comes closer to.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word nears:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. nears: Merriam-Webster
  2. nears: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nears: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nears, nears: Wordnik
  5. nears: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Nears, nears: Wiktionary
  7. nears: Dictionary.com
  8. nears: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. nears: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NEARS: Acronym Finder
  2. nears: Idioms

(Note: See near as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Near)

adjective:  Physically close.
adjective:  Close in time.
adjective:  Closely connected or related.
adjective:  Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
adjective:  Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
adjective:  So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
adjective:  Approximate, almost.
adjective:  (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
adjective:  (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
adjective:  (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
adjective:  (now rare) Stingy; parsimonious.
adjective:  (programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
adverb:  At or towards a position close in space or time.
adverb:  Nearly; almost.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To come closer to; to approach.
noun:  The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
noun:  A surname.
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