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.
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Impend
//ɪmˈpɛnd//
Synonyms for "impend" (33 found)
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Related words (16)
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Translations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- застрашавам verb (be about to happen)
- предстоя verb (be about to happen)
Czech
1 entries- hrozit verb (be about to happen)
German
3 entries- bevorstehen verb (be about to happen)
- drohen verb (be about to happen)
- sich ankündigen verb (be about to happen)
Latin
1 entries- imminere verb (be about to happen)
Russian
1 entries- надвигаться verb (be about to happen)
Spanish
2 entries- impender verb (be about to happen)
- inminer verb (be about to happen)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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