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Synonyms for impend

Grammar : Verb
Spell : im-pend
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
Example sentences :
  • 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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