| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Impend.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb impend.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (impend) | 1. Be imminent or about to happen; "Changes are impending".[Wordnet]. 2. To pay.[Websters]. 3. To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: impending, impended, impends, impender, impenders, impendingly and impendedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "IMPENDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1730. (references) |
Specialty Definition: impend
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten. A dark cloud impends over the land. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends.. | 2: [Verb] To be near; to be approaching and ready to fall on. It expresses our deep sense of God;s impending wrath. Nor bear advices of impending foes.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [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. My hunger should impend any second now. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
