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Definition of Impend
1. Verb. Be imminent or about to happen. "Changes are impending"
Definition of Impend
1. v. t. To pay.
2. v. i. To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.
Definition of Impend
1. Verb. (intransitive) to 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impend
1. to be imminent [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impend
Literary usage of Impend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... ill-starred host impend ! " O Turnus, what a reckoning thou shalt pay " To me
in arms! O Tiber, in thy wave "What helms and shields and mighty soldiers ..."
2. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"I stood at an open window in the transverse corridor, and looked down upon the
Arno, and across at the range of edifices that impend over it on the opposite ..."
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