impending

[im-pen-ding]

adjective

1. about to happen; imminent.

   their impending marriage.

2. imminently threatening or menacing.

   an impending storm.

3. Archaic.,  overhanging.

impending

/ ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ /

adjective

1. about to happen; imminent

Word History and Origins

Origin of impending¹

First recorded in 1675–85; impend + -ing ²

Synonym Study

See imminent.

Example Sentences

The email address was changed only a week before the outage, but telcos had been told about the impending switch two weeks prior, the federal communications deparment said.

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“Let’s just get done with it,” one person wrote of the impending layoffs.

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The union has more than 200,000 members in California and is being battered by the federal government shutdown, the state’s budget deficit and impending healthcare strikes.

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He was told by his captors of his impending release a week before it happened.

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Russell Vought, the White House's budget chief, briefed Republicans behind closed doors on what the impending layoffs could look like, although public details of those plans are sparse.

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