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impending

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English impend English -ing English impending From impend + -ing.

  1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.

    I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

    "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English impend English -ing English impending From impend + -ing.

  1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

    Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.

    Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English impend English -ing English impending From impend + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of impend

    The hurricane is impending.