impended 

  1. 動詞
impend過去式與過去分詞:
不及物動詞:
迫近, 逼近
即將發生
懸置

    同義字詞
brew,loom

例句

  1. It was obvious, therefore, that disaster impended .
  2. Over his own head impended perpetual shame, over the fatherland perpetual woe, if the Congress should now refuse the necessary supplies.
  3. After the birth of saint John and the return of the most holy Mary and her spouse Joseph to Nazareth, saint Elisa beth received a divine revelation that a great calamity and slaughter impended over the infants of Bethlehem and its vicinity.
  4. Yet this man whom few lov'd and none trusted, who was old without being venerable, and infirm without being pitied, and over whose head the axe impended , had still subtlety and address to move the whole North to his purposes, without laying himself open to detection.
  5. An oracle had declared that over the dominions of one of the kings of the Deccan impended a great peril which could only be averted by the sacrifice of his infant daughter, who was committed to the sea on an ark of sandalwood, eventually reaching the island, just south of Trincomalee at a place that in the mid 19th century was still called Pannoa (smiling infant).