impend
im pend
- v  be imminent or about to happen
                    
                        
                            
Changes are impending 
- Meanwhile, changes impend in Southern political alignments.
 - An international incident seemed to impend when the Rumanian ghouls incautiously admitted that they had pulled the corpse this way and that, in an effort to find contraband goods .
 - By this stratagem the public was apparently convinced that immediate disaster did not impend, and withdrawals grew lighter as the week progressed.