impend
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”).
[edit] Verb
impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)
- (intransitive) to be about to happen or occur, especially of something which takes some time such as a process or procedure rather than just a short event. "To impend" often has the connotation of threat.
- My hunger should impend any second now.
[edit] Translations
be about to happen
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