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impend
impend:
see
pendulum
impend (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
.