impended
impended is the simple past and past participle of impend.
Meaning of impend
Verb
impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)
- To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
- 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
- To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
- To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
- impending doom
- To pay.
Questions about impended
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- Impended is the simple past and past participle of impend.
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