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Impending definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPEND'ING, ppr. Hanging over; approaching near; threatening.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, close at hand, imminent, impendent, impending]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An impending event is one that is going to happen very soon. (FORMAL) On the morning of the expedition I awoke with a feeling of impending disaster... ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impendent, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, incumbent, instant, jutting, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, on the horizon, overhanging, overhung, pending, preparing, projecting, proximate, superincumbent, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting