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impends

verb , present tense third-person singular of impend

Synonyms and Antonyms of impends

to be about to happen

for confirmed pessimists some disaster always seems to be impending

Synonyms of impends

Words Related to impends

advances, approaches, closes in, draws on, gathers, nears

hangs, hovers, lowers (also lours), menaces, overhangs, threatens

Near Antonyms of impends

abates, declines, de-escalates, dies down, diminishes, disappears, dwindles, ebbs, fades, falls, lessens, lets up, lowers, moderates, recedes, relents, remits, shrinks, subsides, tapers, tapers off, vanishes, wanes

falls back, passes, recedes, retreats, withdraws

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