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Grammar : Verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɛnd |
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Définition of impend
Origin :- 1590s, from figurative use of Latin impendere "to hang over, to be imminent," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + pendere "hang" (see pendant). Related: Impended; impending.
- verb threaten
- We seriously consider the dreadful judgments that now impend the nation.
- Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
- Overbold, audacious; overhang, impend; overweigh, preponderate.
- Extract from : « An Outline of English Speech-craft » by William Barnes
- They were his rock of refuge in any cataclysm that might impend.
- Extract from : « Bunker Bean » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Concealing his agitation, he began the routine of such familiar labors as impend on the eve of battle.
- Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
- To Hugh a crisis seemed to impend, but he held off for the Gilmores, who seemed to be used to crises.
- Extract from : « Gideon's Band » by George W. Cable
- Broken boulders often impend the river's course for miles, and hopelessly obstruct descent.
- Extract from : « Wild Spain (Espaa agreste) » by Abel Chapman
- The Kalmuck priest wears a leather coat, over the laps of which impend hundreds of strips, with leather tassels on the breast.
- Extract from : « Some Heroes of Travel » by W. H. Davenport Adams
- The strike and the lockout become potential, but they impend as possibilities and do their work.
- Extract from : « Essentials of Economic Theory » by John Bates Clark
- One morning it happened, the 16th of February, when naught of moment seemed to impend.
- Extract from : « The Story of Old Fort Loudon » by Charles Egbert Craddock
- At last he smiled, whilst I bowed before him, but very vaguely conscious of what might impend.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
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