impend
- IPA[ɪmˈpɛnd]
英式
- (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) be about to happen
verb: impend, 3rd person present: impends, gerund or present participle: impending, past tense: impended, past participle: impended
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) be about to happen it seemed certain that some great trial of strength impended between the opponents the loss of liberty impends as the result of fatal indiscretion
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- IPA[imˈpend]
美式
- (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) be about to happen: it seemed certain that some great trial of strength impended between the opponents the loss of liberty impends as the result of fatal indiscretion
Oxford American Dictionary