impend
intransitive verb
- Now Rare to hang or be suspended (over)
- to be about to happen; be imminent
- to threaten
See impend in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĭm-pĕndˈ)
intransitive verb im·pend·ed,
im·pend·ing,
im·pends - To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.
- To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended.
- Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.
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