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impend
(obsolete) To hang or be suspended (over) (something); to overhang.
(figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
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I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.
(obsolete) To pay.
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