impend
to be imminent; be about to happen.
to threaten or menace: He felt that danger impended.
Archaic. to hang or be suspended; overhang (usually followed by over).
Origin of impend
1Other words from impend
- su·per·im·pend, verb (used without object)
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How to use impend in a sentence
Mrs. Walbrough was one of those women who are happiest when trouble impends or is at hand.
Find the Woman | Arthur Somers RocheTyranny impends in red wrath: help for you is none, if not in your own right hands.
Death impends at every moment; there remain only doubtful supplies for a few days.
For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.
Pierre; or The Ambiguities | Herman MelvilleAll the characters come on with the cart, and a dénouement evidently impends.
British Dictionary definitions for impend
/ (ɪmˈpɛnd) /
(esp of something threatening) to be about to happen; be imminent
(foll by over) rare to be suspended; hang
Origin of impend
1Derived forms of impend
- impendence or impendency, noun
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