Definitions
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- noun The state of
impending . - noun That which
impends .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
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Examples
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BURNS: Well, he dropped out of the race, Nancy, due to the impendency of the investigation.
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Their eyes rested upon the mountainside they had just left — oppressed by some dark sense of tragic impendency.
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Then the breathless impendency of the event swept his mind clear of details.
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Then the breathless impendency of the event swept his mind clear of details.
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Their eyes rested upon the mountainside they had just left -- oppressed by some dark sense of tragic impendency.
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