Impend

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.
  • verb-intransitive. To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to be about to happen or occur, especially of something which takes some time such as a process or procedure rather than just a short event. "To impend" often has the connotation of threat.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pay.
  • verb-intransitive. To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See imminent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overhang; be ready to fall; be imminent; threaten; be on the point of occurring, as something evil.
  • To hang over.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be imminent or about to happen
    • Verb Form
    impended    impending    impends   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be   
    Variant
    imminent   
    Form
    impended    impending   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pay    menace    Han   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend   
     
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