Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to impend
Participle: impended
Gerund: impending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | impend |
| you | impend |
| he;she;it | impends |
| we | impend |
| you | impend |
| they | impend |
Perfect
| I | have impended |
| you | have impended |
| he;she;it | has impended |
| we | have impended |
| you | have impended |
| they | have impended |
Past
| I | impended |
| you | impended |
| he;she;it | impended |
| we | impended |
| you | impended |
| they | impended |
Pluperfect
| I | had impended |
| you | had impended |
| he;she;it | had impended |
| we | had impended |
| you | had impended |
| they | had impended |
Future
| I | will impend |
| you | will impend |
| he;she;it | will impend |
| we | will impend |
| you | will impend |
| they | will impend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have impended |
| you | will have impended |
| he;she;it | will have impended |
| we | will have impended |
| you | will have impended |
| they | will have impended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | impend |
| you | impend |
| he;she;it | impend |
| we | impend |
| you | impend |
| they | impend |
Perfect
| I | have impended |
| you | have impended |
| he;she;it | have impended |
| we | have impended |
| you | have impended |
| they | have impended |
Imperfect
| I | impended |
| you | impended |
| he;she;it | impended |
| we | impended |
| you | impended |
| they | impended |
Pluperfect
| I | had impended |
| you | had impended |
| he;she;it | had impended |
| we | had impended |
| you | had impended |
| they | had impended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would impend |
| you | would impend |
| he;she;it | would impend |
| we | would impend |
| you | would impend |
| they | would impend |
Perfect
| I | would have impended |
| you | would have impended |
| he;she;it | would have impended |
| we | would have impended |
| you | would have impended |
| they | would have impended |
Imperative
| you | impend |
| we | Let's impend |
| you | impend |
Verbs conjugated like 'impend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'impend'
impeed,
impen,
amend,
append,
depend,
dispend,
emend,
expend,
imband,
imbed,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1599, from fig. use of L.
impendere "to hang over, to be imminent," from
in- "in" +
pendere "hang" (see pendant).
2. Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s. See: Latin '
impendere'.
Sample Sentences
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The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road. [1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 210:]
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when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans
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When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans. [1857, Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, “עַל (Strong's H5921) definition (A)(3)(a)”, in Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:]
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impending doom
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I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame. [1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:]
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Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends [1974, Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited:]