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Etymology

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Fromimpend +‎-ing.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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impending (notcomparable)

  1. Approaching;drawing near; about tohappen or expected to happen.
    Synonyms:imminent,in the offing,proximate;see alsoThesaurus:impending
    I have no time right now because of animpending paper submission deadline.
    • 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page167:
      "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 ofimpending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
    • 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio andJennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satireDon’t Look Up”, inAV Club‎[1]:
      Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into aDr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’simpending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).

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about to happen

Verb

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impending

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofimpend
    The hurricane isimpending.

Noun

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impending (pluralimpendings)

  1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
    • 1934, Arabella Kenealy,The Human Gyroscope:
      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 naturalimpendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.
    • 1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in2000, Nicholas Barnes, Ainin H. Garvey,The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23)
      Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesserimpendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]
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