impend

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
2. verb To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. verb To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.

   impending doom

4. verb To pay.

Similar words

imminent close at hand close at hand loom brew overbrow uphang behang append

Often followed by

over to in on from for as ing the

Word family

impended impending impends