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Impend

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Verb

1. impend

be imminent or about to happen

Example Sentences:
'Changes are impending'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Impend

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verb (intransitive)
1. 
(esp of something threatening) to be about to happen; be imminent
2. (foll by over) rare
to be suspended; hang

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Impend

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verb intransitive
1.  Rare
to hang or be suspended (over)
2. 
a. 
to be about to happen; be imminent
b. 
to threaten

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Impend

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intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends
1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.
2. To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended.
3. Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.

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