IMPEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impend mean? 

• IMPEND (verb)
  The verb IMPEND has 1 sense:

1. be imminent or about to happen

  Familiarity information: IMPEND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they impend    ... he / she / it impends   
Past simple: impended   
Past participle: impended   
-ing form: impending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be imminent or about to happen

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Changes are impending

Hypernyms (to "impend" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

impendence; impendency (the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon)

 Context examples 

He had a vague feeling of impending doom.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Having Jupiter, the planet of miracles, good fortune, and happiness conjunct the Sun and new moon on that solar eclipse last month on December 25 made all the difference to your impending professional happiness.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government; but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The characteristic sign of impending birth during the second stage of labor.

(Crowning during Childbirth, NCI Thesaurus)

So unnerved was I by the thought of impending violence to Leach and Johnson that my reason must have left me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Lizzie was very quiet and without interest in what was impending.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The bolt is impending, and the tree must fall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He crouched down under the impending blow, his hair bristling, but his teeth still keeping tight hold of the rabbit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thornton Lacey was the name of his impending living, as Miss Crawford well knew; and her interest in a negotiation for William Price's knave increased.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

From this time Felix was more employed, and the heart-moving indications of impending famine disappeared.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)