1
: near in place, time, or relationship
Morning was drawing nigh.
—often used with on, onto, or untoserved … for nigh on forty years—M. S. Tisdale
2
: nearly, almost
… once well nigh broke his neck, by a fall from one of its branches.—Washington Irving
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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