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"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The hurricane is impending."
}
],
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"word": "impend"
}
],
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"present participle and gerund of impend"
],
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"impend",
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]
],
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"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "impending"
}
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"English countable nouns",
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"English non-lemma forms",
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verb forms",
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"Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ/3 syllables",
"en:Time"
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"2": "impend",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "impend + -ing",
"name": "af"
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],
"etymology_text": "From impend + -ing.",
"forms": [
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"form": "impendings",
"tags": [
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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 […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something that impends or threatens; an expected event."
]
}
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"ipa": "/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
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