Imminent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMMINENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• impending
• about to happen
• overhanging.
• Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
• Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.
• (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.
• close in time; about to occur
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• ready to take place

Words related to IMMINENT

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How to use IMMINENT in a sentence

• He had come from his cabin, all his nervous depression gone in the face of an imminent and visible danger.
• Although playing about the thought, the one thing that not even the Colonel was able actually to realise, was the imminent probability of death for himself.
• But the odds against them were too great and then when the great siege guns began to thunder, it was soon realized that the city was in imminent danger.
• He had received too great a shock, and the impending danger was too imminent for him to do any thing but watch, so long as darkness and the animal remained.
• Warning signs were everywhere about, bidding all who saw them to beware of the imminent collapse of some heap of masonry.
• Others remained on board the Loch Earn, where in consequence of its disabled condition they seemed again in imminent danger of being lost.
• War between the two great powers must now have seemed imminent, and could indeed only have been avoided by great moderation and self-restraint on the one side or the other.
• The duty seemed more imminent, the difficulty more obstinate.
• The risk was imminent, and an appeal went forth for help to meet the danger.
• Denis, which the French kings only raised over the tomb when their crown was in imminent peril.
• Some such stratagem had been considered probable by Confucius, and the instant the danger became imminent he rushed to the altar and led away the duke.
• Some also say that in imminent danger of death, it was allowable to anticipate the eighth day.
• Some advised her to reject the offer of the states, and represented the imminent dangers, as well as injustice, attending the acceptance of it.
• Charles was in the middle of the kingdom, and could neither stay in his retreat, nor stir a step from it, without the most imminent danger.
• The business industries of the country were paralyzed, public confidence destroyed, and the danger of civil war was imminent.
• Yet early as it was that house on the hill was astir already, in a bustle of preparation for the departure that was imminent.
• Rrisa, fearful of imminent discovery, made up his mind with simple directness.
• But more terrible than agony, than imminent death was the spirit of this wild beast to slay its enemy.
• It was an exciting moment, and Dorothy, despite the fact that the hunted one was a dangerous enemy, could not restrain a cry of horror when she saw his imminent peril.
• After several days sailing, we arrived at a certain port, where it pleased God to rescue us from very imminent danger.
• As to our side of the street, I think we may have been the only people at all interested in the affair now so imminent.
• First he inquired of the Battalion Intelligence Officer whether there were anything reliable in this talk of an imminent attack.
• All the appetite that makes that little pain is not so far ahead when the change is imminent.
• Our first care was to thank the Almighty for having delivered us from so imminent a danger.
• Should it appear that a rescue was imminent, it was their habit to murder any prisoners.
• You were led out by one of these mobs, and saved from their violence and the imminent peril of death, almost by a miracle.

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