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Impending

adjective

Close in time; about to occur. Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent. "Some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand" , "In imminent danger" , "His impending retirement"

Impend

verb

(past & past part. impended; pres. part. impending)

Be imminent or about to happen.

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"Impending" Quotes from Famous Books

... final crush took place, when a third expedition, whose chief was Siang-wu-ta-eul (Singtaur), retook the fort of Kaung sin and penetrated more into the south in the Irawadi Valley, but without reaching Pagan. King Narasihapati evacuated Pagan before the impending advancing Chinese forces and fled to the Delta. In 1285 parleys for the establishment of a Chinese Protectorship were begun; but in the following year, King Narasihapati was poisoned at Prome by his own son ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... drawbridge over the ancient moat and entered the castle gate. The light above it revealed the ghastly, iron-toothed portcullis, that looked ready to fall and impale any audacious passenger under its impending fangs. And they entered the old paved courtyard and crossed over to the main entrance of the ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... interests. But for these the world might be an Anglo-Saxon planet. Would it not be a glorious task for you, who are the flower of this splendid race, so to unite it that it should stand as a solid barrier of invincible manhood before which this impending flood of yellow barbarism should dash itself to pieces like the cloud-waves against the granite summits of the ...

— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith

... impending separation from his father. The sun looks forth dimmed in radiance. Fiery torches wave along the sky. Meteors dart headlong through midheaven. Earth shakes. The firmament rains showers of blood. Around, the horizon thickens. In the day, the pale stars gleam. ...

— Tales from the Hindu Dramatists • R. N. Dutta

... was compelled to answer her questions as to what he would do if, for instance, a crocodile, ten yards long, or a scorpion as big as a dog, should crawl through the window of her home. To both it never occurred for a moment that impending reality would surpass all ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

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