0 If an event impends, usually an event that is unpleasant or unwanted, it is going to happen soon: --
A crisis of huge proportions impends in the area.
Contemporary-era studies of last-term effects are restricted to examining only impending retirees.
The finding was almost always a manifestation of another fetal disease process and seemed to be the earliest sign of impending hydrops.
The data revealed experiences of existential loneliness with the impending death as a primary source.
The penultimate chapter deals with the role of memory and the search for personal meaning in response to impending death in a death-denying society.
In true experiments as well as in numerical simulations, intermittency is a sign of impending chaos.
The feathers are symbolic of his impending death.
Like a steady drumbeat, the answer in every chapter is the impending workforce shortage.
Many of the old-age home residents turned their common experience into a social world that focused on seclusion and impending death.