impend (redirected from impends)

im·pend  (m-pnd)

intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends

1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.

2. To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended.

3. Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.

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[Latin impendre : in-, over; see in-² + pendre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

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impend [ɪmˈpɛnd]

vb (intr)

1. (esp of something threatening) to be about to happen; be imminent

2. (foll by over) Rare to be suspended; hang

[from Latin impendēre to overhang, from pendēre to hang]

impendence , impendency n

impending  adj

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

impend - be imminent or about to happen; "Changes are impending" be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

Translations

impend [ɪmˈpend] VI → amenazar, ser inminente, cernerse

impend

vi → bevorstehen; (= threaten) → drohen