impend

impendverb/ɪmˈpɛnd/

• 1

  obsoleteTo hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.

  • 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 (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
• 2

  To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.

• 3

  To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.

  • impending doom
  • I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.
• 4

  obsoleteTo pay.