impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
impended
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past participleof impend.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof impend.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
impendverb (used without object)to be imminent; be about to happen.
Example Sentences
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Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.
From Time Magazine Archive
No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other German defeats in other areas impended: > At Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
