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Impend

//ɪmˈpɛnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. obsolete

    "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."

  2. 2
    be imminent or about to happen wordnet
  3. 3
    To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. figuratively, intransitive
  4. 4
    To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. intransitive

    "impending doom"

  5. 5
    To pay. obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.

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