impend

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. obsolete
    — 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.
  2. To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. figuratively,intransitive
  3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. intransitive
    — impending doom
  4. To pay. obsolete

词形变化

impends present,singular,third-person impending participle,present impended participle,past impended past

词源

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.
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