nighs

verb

present tense third-person singular of nigh
1
as in comes
to come near or nearer as the hour of his death was nighing

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2
as in approaches
to move closer to as the old man was nighing his hour of death

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nighs
  1. comes
  2. approaches
  3. draws on
  4. closes
  5. comes up
  6. closes in
  7. nears
Verb
  • As a retired fighter, Taylor faces the daunting task of deciding what comes next.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • There comes a moment, looking at Evans’s dense worlds, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of comes
Verb
  • As the stock approaches fair value and its potential gains become more limited, the investor could sell more calls to collect additional income.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • In current, inflated prices, the outturn cost approaches £48–49 billion.
    — Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of approaches
Verb
  • Testing the core concepts The approach draws on a fuel concept first developed by General Atomics during the 1950s Atoms for Peace initiative.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • This piece draws on public reporting only and these are my own observations unrelated to my employer.
    — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of draws on
Verb
  • More importantly, part two closes an emotional circle that the first one had just begun to delineate.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But these policies don't protect people from a layoff due to other factors like if the company downsizes or closes operations.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of closes
Verb
  • At that time, 78% of those benefits would be payable, unless Congress comes up with a solution.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2026
  • And then this other big guy comes up on the other side of me.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of comes up
Verb
  • Over one night they’re blamed, hunted, and driven apart by their differing belief systems, while the killer, Jacob (James Van Der Beek), the community’s charismatic pastor and de facto patriarch, closes in.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Food and liquid must move from the mouth to the stomach while the airway closes in a fraction of a second to keep material out of the lungs.
    — Sundeep Venkatesan, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of closes in
Verb
  • As Bohm's trial nears, Thompson has been reliving the memories from that night and the terrible weeks that followed.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • As Cuba’s hot summer nears its end with no sign of regime change on the communist-run island, Cubans continue to suffer miserable living conditions as the country’s humanitarian crisis gets disturbingly worse.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of nears
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“Nighs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nighs. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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