Definition of "impend"

impend

/ɪmˈpɛnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended
1. (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
  Quotations
  The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.
  1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 210
  when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leansWhen a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
  1857, Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, “עַל (Strong's H5921) definition (A)(3)(a)”, in Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, retrieved 27 September 2015
2. (intransitive, figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
4. (obsolete) To pay.