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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
impend
 
SYLLABICATION:im·pend
PRONUNCIATION:  m-pnd
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends
1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. To threaten to happen; menace: discouraged by the trouble that impended. 3. Archaic To jut out; hang suspended.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin impendre : in-, over; see in–2 + pendre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Appendix I.
 
 
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