Usually means: To be about to happen.
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  1. impend: Merriam-Webster
  2. impend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impend: Vocabulary.com
  6. impend: Wordnik
  7. impend: Wiktionary
  8. impend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. impend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. impend: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Impend, impend: Dictionary.com
  12. impend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Impend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. impend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. impend: Rhymezone
  16. Impend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. impend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. impend: FreeDictionary.org
  19. impend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. impend: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impend: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impend)

▸ verb:  (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To pay.

Similar:
imminent, close at hand, close, at hand, overbrow, uphang, behang, append, hang, depend, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, far-off, postponed, delayed

Types:
block, threaten, loom, be imminent, more...

Adjectives:
event, daily, high, awful, deeper, westward, dire

Colors:
    dark gray,     stormy blue,     deep red,     thundercloud gray,     murky green, more...


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Similar:
imminent, close at hand, close, at hand, overbrow, uphang, behang, append, hang, depend, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, far-off, postponed, delayed

Types:
block, threaten, loom, be imminent, more...

Adjectives:
event, daily, high, awful, deeper, westward, dire

Colors:
    dark gray,     stormy blue,     deep red,     thundercloud gray,     murky green, more...



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