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IMPENDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Close in time; about to occur
Example:
his impending retirement
Synonyms:
at hand; close at hand; imminent; impendent; impending
Classified under:
Similar:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb impend
Context examples:
The bolt is impending, and the tree must fall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But Jo hated 'philandering', and wouldn't allow it, always having a joke or a smile ready at the least sign of impending danger.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government; but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So unnerved was I by the thought of impending violence to Leach and Johnson that my reason must have left me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The characteristic sign of impending birth during the second stage of labor.
(Crowning during Childbirth, NCI Thesaurus)
Panic attacks begin with intense apprehension, fear or terror and, often, a feeling of impending doom.
(Panic Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of life.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
