to impend

Examples

• All

• It took my impending death for me to realize how much I need you.

  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

• Upon learning of Mary's arrest and impending prosecution, Nina expresses a desire to show mercy towards Mary.

  Academic text (2017)

• Oh, how I want to believe him, yet I feel a sense of impending doom.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Beyond drought, there is another aspect of the impending water crisis.

  Academic text (2000)

• Birds sing as citizens go about their daily lives unaware of the impending chaos.

  9/11: Minute by Minute (2021)

• Thus, the main reason for our current schizophrenia about the impending extinction crisis seems simple to me.

  Academic text (1991)

• Many felt that humankind is engaged in a race between what can be changed and impending environmental disaster.

  Academic text (2001)

• The stock market could drop, and the impending slowdown could even tilt into recession.

  Academic text (1999)

• You live here among us, taking our parking spaces, luring our women into your cars, but there's a sense of impending ruin.

  Game 6 (2006)

• I could feel an impending sense of danger as the storm clouds gathered on the horizon.

Antonyms

P

to prevent

∞ 2.3

Stop something from happening or someone from doing it

How Imminent

imminent

168 4.8

to impend

22 7.7

likely

∞ 1.0

to loom

152 5.1

potentially

479 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology