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im⋅pend⋅ing

  [im-pen-ding]
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–adjective
1. about to happen; imminent: their impending marriage.
2. imminently threatening or menacing: an impending storm.
3. Archaic. overhanging.
Origin:
1675–85; impend + -ing 2

Synonyms:
1. See imminent.

im⋅pend

  [im-pend]
–verb (used without object)
1. to be imminent; be about to happen.
2. to threaten or menace: He felt that danger impended.
3. Archaic. to hang or be suspended; overhang (usually fol. by over).
Origin:
1580–90; < L impendēre to hang over, threaten. See im- 1 , pend
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im·pend   (ĭm-pěnd')   
intr.v.   im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends
  1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.
  2. To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended.
  3. Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.

[Latin impendēre : in-, over; see in-2 + pendēre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
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Impending

Im*pend"ing\, a. Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

An impending brow. --Hawthorne.

And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. --Pope.

Syn: Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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