impending

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
    — Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of impend form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — The hurricane is impending.
形容词 adj.
  1. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. not-comparable
    — I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

词形变化

impendings plural

词汇关系

反义词
happening

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English impend
English -ing
English impending
From impend + -ing.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English impend
English -ing
English impending
From impend + -ing.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English impend
English -ing
English impending
From impend + -ing.
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