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Definition: Impend |
ImpendVerb1. Be imminent or about to happen; "Changes are impending". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destiny | Verb: impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for. |
Futurity | Come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend; (be destined). |
Height | Verb: be high; Adjective: tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; (be superior); stand on tiptoe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Impend |
| English words defined with "impend": Impended ♦ Overbrow. (references) |
Expression using "impend": impend over. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
impend | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përgatitem (await, be about to, prepare, study, work up), kërcënoj (blackmail, browbeat, bulldoze, denounce, menace, threaten), afrohem (advance, approach, approximate, border on, close in, close on, come close, come closer, come on, draw near, gain on, make up, near, nigh, verge). (various references) | |
Arabic | توعد (bluster, luscious, menace, overhang, threaten). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вися (cool one's heels, dangle, hang, hang down, hang over, loll, sag, swag, swing), надвиснал съм (loom), заплашвам (huff, intimidate, menace, threaten, thunder), предстоя (lie ahead). (various references) | |
Czech | vznášet se (float, hover, ride, soar). (various references) | |
French | être imminent. (various references) | |
German | drohen (be imminent, be looming, loom, menace, threat, threaten, to menace, to threaten, to utter threats). (various references) | |
Greek | επικρέμαμαι (hover), επίκειμαι (pend). (various references) | |
Hungarian | függ (depend, hang, to be dependent on, to depend, to hang, to hinge). (various references) | |
Italian | incombere (be imminent, be incumbent on, hang over, impend over), minacciare (menace, overhang, threaten, to utter threats). (various references) | |
Manx | croghey erskyn (projecting over), baggyrt (caution, forebode, fulminate, threat, threaten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impenday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rotor (armature, impeller, nose fairing, rotator, rotor, secondary, spinner, wheel), pender (depend, droop, fall, hang, overhang, recline, tilt), pairar sobre (overhang). (various references) | |
Romanian | pluti în aer (float, hang, hover, ride, soar), fi iminent, ameninţa (bludgeon, bluster, denunciate, launch a threat, menace, overhang, Ratten, scowl, threaten). (various references) | |
Russian | угрожать (overhang, threaten), надвигаться. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pretiti (bluster, brandish, threaten), predstojati (be imminent). (various references) | |
Spanish | amenazar (brew, loom, loom up, menace, overhang, threaten). (various references) | |
Swedish | hota (menace, overhang, threaten, to utter threats). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakın olmak (be in the offing, overhang), tehdit oluşturmak, sarkmak (bag, beetle, dangle, drape, droop, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, prolapse, sag, slouch), asılı olmak (be dependent, lop). (various references) | |
Ukranian | насуватися (come on), загрожувати (hang, hang about, hang over, menace, overhang, threaten). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inpende, inpendebant, inpendere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impend": impended, impendent, impending, impends. (additional references) | |
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"Impend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Imbens, imeand, impand, impe, impead, impemd, impen, impfen, impid, impind, Impney, impond, impune, Imren, inbend, Ingpen, inpend, ipen, ipent, mpend, mpende, Vipond. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "impend" (pronounced i'mpe"nd) |
| 4 | -p e" n d | append, depend, expend, misspend, penned, spend, suspend. |
| 3 | -e" n d | amend, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defend, descend, distend, end, extend, fend, friend, intend, lend, mend, offend, overextend, portend, pretend, recommend, relend, send, tend, transcend, trend, unbend, wend, yearend. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p" | |
-1 letter: denim, imped, mined, pined. | |
-2 letters: deni, dime, dine, idem, mend, mien, mind, mine, nide, pein, pend, pied, pine. | |
-3 letters: den, die, dim, din, dip, end, imp, med, men, mid, nim, nip, ped, pen, pie, pin. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, em, en, id, in, me, mi, ne, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p" | |
+1 letter: impends, imponed. | |
+2 letters: dopamine, impawned, impeding, impended, impinged, impudent, impugned, misspend, pandemic, pediment, piedmont, unprimed. | |
+3 letters: amplidyne, companied, compendia, dampening, decamping, deperming, depluming, dopamines, dumpiness, impainted, impaneled, impedance, impendent, impending, implanted, impounded, impregned, imprinted, imprudent, impudence, mispenned, misspends, pandemics, pediments, piedmonts, pigmented, princedom, reprimand, supermind, unimpeded. | |
+4 letters: amplidynes, bedimpling, campaigned, championed, compendium, complained, delphinium, empoisoned, epidendrum, idempotent, impanelled, impedances, impediment, impleading, impledging, importuned, imprisoned, imprudence, impudences, impudently, limpidness, meperidine, midshipmen, mispainted, misplanned, misplanted, mispointed, misprinted, monopodies, multipaned, nephridium, palindrome, pantomimed, pedimental, pedimented, prehominid, premolding, princedoms, pyrimidine, redemption, reprimands, stampeding, superminds, unimpaired, unimproved. | |
+5 letters: accompanied, antependium, companioned, compendious, compendiums, decomposing, delphiniums, desipramine, despisement, despoilment, disportment, dissepiment, dumpinesses, emancipated, endomorphic, endoplasmic, epidendrums, idempotents, impassioned, impedimenta, impediments, implemented, impoundment, impregnated, improvident, imprudences, imprudently, madreporian, manipulated, meperidines, mispleading, misspending, monopolised, monopolized, palindromes, pandemonium, pentamidine, predicament, predominant, predominate, prehominids, premonished, promenading, pumpkinseed, pyrimidines, redemptions, reimplanted, reprimanded, unamplified, unimpressed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 65 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. . -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p e n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0065 006E 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982718070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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