draw near (v.)

• accost
• advance
• anticipate
• approach
• approximate
• await
• brew
• close
• come
• confront
• converge
• encounter
• expect
• face
• foresee
• foretell
• gather
• hope
• hover
• impend
• loom
• lower
• menace
• near
• overhang
• plan
• plot
• predict
• project
• prophesy
• proximate
• threaten