Impending Meaning
/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjApproaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
verbpresent participle and gerund of impend
Sentence Examples
I was keyed up over her impending operation.
The impending examination loomed large in her mind.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The dark clouds on the horizon signaled the ____ storm, so we hurried inside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The dark clouds were a clear sign of the ____ summer storm that would soon reach the town.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English impend English -ing English impending From impend + -ing.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made."
— 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
"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)."
— 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:
"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."
— 1934, Arabella Kenealy, The Human Gyroscope:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The dark clouds on the horizon signaled the ____ storm, so we hurried inside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The dark clouds were a clear sign of the ____ summer storm that would soon reach the town.