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impend

im·pend

UK/ɪmˈpɛnd/ US/ˌɪˈmpɛnd/ uncommon obsolete

verb

1.

be imminent or about to happen

  • “Changes are impending”

Origin

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.

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