impend

Definition

To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans."
• "impending doom"