"impending" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ Etymology: From impend + -ing. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)pend-}}, {{af|en|impend|-ing}} impend + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} impending (not comparable)
  1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Time Hypernyms: future, possible Related terms: approaching, brewing [figuratively], looming [figuratively], soon Translations (about to happen): предстоящ (predstojašt) (Bulgarian), imminent (Catalan), blížící se (Czech), nakend (Dutch), antaŭstaranta (Esperanto), imminent (French), bevorstehend (German), raraka (english: refers to misfortune) (Maori), whano (Maori), قریبالوقوع (qarib-olvoqu') (Persian), dreiwent (Plautdietsch), iminente (Portuguese), приближа́ющийся (približájuščijsja) (Russian), надвига́ющийся (nadvigájuščijsja) (Russian), предстоя́щий (predstojáščij) (Russian), भविष्य (bhaviṣya) (Sanskrit), inminente (Spanish), impendiente (Spanish), hotande (Swedish), förestående (Swedish), kommande (Swedish), навислий (navyslyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), той, що наближається (toj, ščo nablyžajetʹsja) [masculine] (Ukrainian), той, що насувається (toj, ščo nasuvajetʹsja) [masculine] (Ukrainian), באַלדיק (baldik) (Yiddish)
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Noun

IPA: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/ Forms: impendings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ Etymology: From impend + -ing. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)pend-}}, {{af|en|impend|-ing}} impend + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} impending (plural impendings)
  1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
    Sense id: en-impending-en-noun-~0F7wH2l

Verb

IPA: /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ Etymology: From impend + -ing. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)pend-}}, {{af|en|impend|-ing}} impend + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} impending
  1. present participle and gerund of impend Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: impend
    Sense id: en-impending-en-verb-t~UGQ5xG

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          "english": "refers to misfortune",
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          "text": "Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).",
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      "roman": "predstojašt",
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      "sense": "about to happen",
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      "sense": "about to happen",
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      "sense": "about to happen",
      "word": "bevorstehend"
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      "roman": "qarib-olvoqu'",
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      "word": "قریبالوقوع"
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      "sense": "about to happen",
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      "word": "приближа́ющийся"
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      "sense": "about to happen",
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          "ref": "1934, Arabella Kenealy, The Human Gyroscope:",
          "text": "Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.",
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          "ref": "1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in 2000, Nicholas Barnes, Ainin H. Garvey, The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23)",
          "text": "Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]"
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