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Impending

adjective

Close in time; about to occur. Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent. "Some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand" , "In imminent danger" , "His impending retirement"

Impend

verb

(past & past part. impended; pres. part. impending)

Be imminent or about to happen.

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"Impending" Quotes from Famous Books

... beginning of what he felt was a new epoch in his life. This was the understanding, the fellowship, the bon camaraderie that gives existence its zest and permits one to dream of life eternal without a horror of impending weariness and boredom. ...

— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens

... having been fairly well appeased by the remnant of the sponge loaf, Paul had time to surrender himself to the thought of impending starvation. He convinced himself that a boy could die of starvation in two days. Morrow at noontide would see him stark and cold. He grew newly holy at this reflection, and forgave everybody afresh with flattering tears. It became ...

— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray

... drives, yachts and innumerable other affairs also plunged their fingers in. Peter did not yield to the superior numbers, he went wherever Leonore went. But the other men went also, and understood the ropes far better. He fought on, but a sickening feeling began to creep over him of impending failure. It was soon not merely how Leonore treated him; it was the impossibility of getting her to treat him at all. Even though he was in the same house, it seemed as if there was always some one else calling or ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... of Bishop Neville on June 4, 1871, raised the episcopal bench to seven—its present number. But a sore trouble was impending. The New Zealand bishops were full of anxiety for the health of their young colleague in Melanesia, and before leaving Dunedin they wrote to him an affectionate letter, in which they urged him to leave his work for ...

— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas

... this sudden revulsion of hope, and before these symptoms of impending danger, Archie might have fled. But not even that was left to him. My lord, after hanging up his cloak and hat, turned round in the lighted entry, and made him an imperative and silent gesture with ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

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