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impending Definition


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impend
verb, intr impended, impending
    1. To be about to happen.
    2. Said of a danger, etc: to threaten; to hover threateningly.
Derivative: impending
adj
    About to happen
      Thesaurus: imminent, looming, threatening, approaching, menacing, coming, brewing, close, in store.
Etymology: 16c in sense 2: from Latin impendere to hang over.



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