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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
impend /ɪmˈpɛnd/

▶verb (usu. as adj. impending) be about to happen.

■ archaic (of something bad) loom.

– origin C16: from L. impendere, from in- ‘towards, upon’ + pendere ‘hang’.

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