Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪmˈpɛnd/
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ɪmˈpɛnd
Verb
To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
Usage- Obsolete
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The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.
when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
Usage- Figurative
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To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
Usage- Intransitive
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impending doom
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I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.
Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends
To pay.
Usage- Obsolete
Verb
be imminent or about to happen
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Changes are impending