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Impending
//ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. not-comparable
"I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline."
Adjective
- 1 close in time; about to occur wordnet
Noun
- 1 Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
"Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of impend form-of, gerund, participle, present
"The hurricane is impending."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From impend + -ing.
Etymology 2
From impend + -ing.
Etymology 3
From impend + -ing.
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