Past tense of 'anear'; drew near or came close to something in archaic or poetic English.
From the verb 'anear' plus the past tense suffix '-ed.' This archaic past tense form is virtually unused in modern English except in historical fiction or very old texts.
English loves adding '-ed' to make past tense, but 'aneared' sounds so archaic that modern readers might not even recognize it as a past tense verb—language evolution makes old words unrecognizable fast!
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