impend.
To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
Meaning & usage
To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
impending doom
To pay.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.