impends

Verb

impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)

1. (obsolete) 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
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
   • impending doom
4. (obsolete) To pay.