Meaning

(obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
4. (obsolete) To pay.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

impending doom

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.

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

Word Forms

• impends
• impending
• impended

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When Should You Use Impend?

Use impend when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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