impending

adjective

1. about to happen; imminent: their impending marriage.
2. imminently threatening or menacing: an impending storm.
3. Archaic. overhanging.

verb (used without object)

1. to be imminent; be about to happen.
2. to threaten or menace: He felt that danger impended.
3. Archaic. to hang or be suspended; overhang (usually followed by over).

adjective

1. about to happen; imminent

verb (intr)

1. (esp of something threatening) to be about to happen; be imminent
2. (foll by over) rare to be suspended; hang

v.

1590s, from figurative use of Latin impendere “to hang over, to be imminent,” from assimilated form of in- “into, in, on, upon” (see in- (2)) + pendere “hang” (see pendant). Related: Impended; impending.