Meaning

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen..

Definitions by Sense

1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
2. present participle and gerund of impend
3. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

Example Sentences

I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.

Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).

The hurricane is impending.

Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]

Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.

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• impendings

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

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