Impend

Quick meaning: Impend is a verb meaning (intransitive, figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.

Meaning

(intransitive, figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
2. (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
3. (obsolete) To pay.

Example Sentences

impending doom

Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends

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.

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.

Word Forms

• impends
• impending
• impended

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imminent, close, loom, brew, overbrow, uphang.

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