impend

Verb

1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
   • 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. - 1789, John Moore, Zeluco,...
   • 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...
2. To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
   • impending doom
   • I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a...
   • Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends - 1974, Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited:
4. To pay.