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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impend  \Im*pend"\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Impended};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Impending}.]  [L.  impend[=e]re;  pref.  im-  in  +  pend[=e]re 
  to  hang.  See  {Pendant}.] 
  To  hang  over  to  be  suspended  above;  to  threaten  frome  near 
  at  hand;  to  menace;  to  be  imminent.  See  {Imminent}. 
 
  Destruction  sure  o'er  all  your  heads  impends.  --Pope. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impending  \Im*pend"ing\,  a. 
  Hanging  over  overhanging;  suspended  so  as  to  menace; 
  imminet;  threatening. 
 
  An  impending  brow.  --Hawthorne. 
 
  And  nodding  Ilion  waits  th'  impending  fall.  --Pope. 
 
  Syn:  Imminent;  threatening.  See  {Imminent}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  impending 
  adj  :  close  in  time;  about  to  occur;  "retribution  is  at  hand"; 
  "some  people  believe  the  day  of  judgment  is  close  at 
  hand";  "in  imminent  danger";  "his  impending  retirement" 
  [syn:  {at  hand(p)},  {close  at  hand(p)},  {imminent}]




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