About to
Intending and about to are semantically related. in not quite topic. In some cases you can use "Intending" instead a preposition phrase "About to".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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In "Deep Breath", when it looks like the droids are about to slaughter the Doctor's friends, Strax turns his gun on himself, clearly intending to go out on his own terms.
Source: Better to Die than Be Killed -
This happens in Tangled when Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair as she is about to heal him, intending to free her from captivity.
Source: Important Haircut - Another flashback from Plutonian's early teen years showed that he heard his foster mother was about to commit suicide, and got there in a fraction of a second, intending to stop her.
Source: Reality Ensues / Comic Books
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Intending and About to. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/about_to/intending
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