impends
Meaning of impends
verb, 3rd person present
- (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) be about to happen.
it seemed certain that some great trial of strength impended between the opponents
the loss of liberty impends as the result of fatal indiscretion
late 16th century: from Latin impendere, from in- ‘towards, upon’ + pendere ‘hang’.
Information about impends
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of impends is: impend.
- Languages in which impends is used:
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Hyphenation of impends
im-pends
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- impends is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
impends synonyms
Meaning about to happen:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Meaning come near to; approach:
Meaning almost achieve or do:
Meaning coming nearer in distance or time:
Meaning due to happen or just beginning:
Meaning about to happen or appear:
Meaning about to happen; forthcoming:
Meaning the activity or business of producing beer:
Meaning (of an event regarded as threatening) seem about to happen:
Meaning having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner:
Meaning suggesting the presence of danger; threatening:
Anagrams of impends
Words that rhyme with impends
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