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impend

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere (to hang over, to weigh out).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?p?nd/
  • Rhymes: -?nd

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.
    • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 210:
      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.
    • When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (????????), over which one really leans.
  2. (intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
  3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
  4. (obsolete) To pay.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?)

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Anagrams

  • Mendip

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impeed

English

Verb

impeed (third-person singular simple present impeeds, present participle impeeding, simple past and past participle impeeded)

  1. Obsolete form of impede.

Anagrams

  • impede

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