impending Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb be imminent or about to happen
impend.
- Changes are impending
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adjective satellite close in time; about to occur
close at hand; impendent; at hand; imminent.
- retribution is at hand
- some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand
- in imminent danger
- his impending retirement
WordNet
Im*pend"ing adjective
Definitions
Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne.
And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.
Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent .
