verb
- to be about to happen or occur, especially something threatening or unpleasant
Usage: formal
Examples
- Dark clouds gathered as a storm began to impend.
- The deadline impends, and we still have much work to do.
- Economic collapse seemed to impend as the crisis deepened.
- She could sense that danger was impending.
- The teacher warned that final exams were impending.
- A sense of doom impended over the abandoned town.