imminent danger/threat/death/disaster etc• Dauntlessreviewed his feelings about imminent death.• For much of the past week I have had this dreadful, stomach-churning feeling of imminent disaster.• So intense is the chameleon's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger.• We face no imminent threat, but we do have an enemy.• Detain any person who poses an imminent threat of death or seriousbodilyharm.• Rather, they said, it was the imminent death of the hungerstrikers that stepped up the political pressure this week.• Never was Stanford in imminent danger, though.• Finally, there are the prophecies of Alexander's imminent death which were circulating weeks before his death.
Originimminent
(1500-1600)Latin present participle of imminere“to stick out, threaten”