| 单词 | impending |
| 释义 | impending (once / 911 pages) adj If something is impending, it is about to happen. If you hear thunder in the distance, you might go inside to escape the impending storm. The word impending often refers to something threatening or frightening: impending doom, impending disaster. Something that is impending hangs over you — you might say, "I was so distracted by thoughts of my impending failure in my exams, I couldn't study." A synonym is imminent. WORD FAMILYimpending: impendingly+/impend: impended, impending, impends 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) adj close in time; about to occur his impending retirement Syn at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent close at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other |
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