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Impending definition

Present participle of impend.

The hurricane is impending.

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Approaching; drawing near; about to happen.

I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

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The definition of impending is about to happen.

An example of impending used as an adjective is in the phrase "an impending rainstorm" which means a rainstorm that is going to start at any minute.

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Origin of impending

  • From Latin impendere (“to overhang").

    From Wiktionary

Impending Sentence Examples

  • The resolutions were devised to save the situation, in view of the impending loss of the temporalities.

  • Whatever the case, the feeling of impending doom continued.

  • He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle.

  • He had grown accustomed when going into action to think about anything but what would seem most likely to interest him--the impending danger.

  • Prince Nicholas grew more animated and expressed his views on the impending war.

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