impend
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪmˈpɛnd/
impend (impends, present participle impending; past and past participle impended)
- (intransitive) To threaten to, or be about to, happen or occur, especially of something which takes some time such as a process or procedure rather than just a short event. "To impend" often has the connotation of threat.
- (obsolete) To overhang.
- When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
- (obsolete) To pay.
- German: bevorstehen, drohen, sich ankündigen
- Russian: надвигаться
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