| 单词 | impend |
| 释义 | impend (once / 852 pages) v When things impend, they are just about to happen. As you're heading into a haunted house, you might have the feeling that spooky noises and lurching monsters impend. While you're more likely to see the adjective form of this word, impending, used to describe something that's looming or coming up in the future, you can also use the verb impend when something is approaching or developing. You could say, for example, that winter impends when the leaves have all fallen off the trees and the temperature has dropped. The Latin root is impendere, "hang over or be imminent," from pendere, or "hang." WORD FAMILYimpend: impended, impending, impends+/impending: impendingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe impending mission carries huge stakes for both SpaceX and Iridium. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) When I spoke with him last week, Mr. Kiernan did not sound like a man gnashing his teeth about the impending Trump era. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) But Donald Trump’s candidacy supercharged that rise like nothing before it, and his impending presidency promises much more of the same. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) v be imminent or about to happen Changes are impending Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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