impend

verb4

1. •
   To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.

   • Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends — 1974
2. •
   (figurative) To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. •
   (no longer used) 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
4. •
   (no longer used) To pay.