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Synonyms for await
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : uh-weyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈweɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for await
Définition of await
Origin :- early 13c., awaiten, from Old North French awaitier (Old French agaitier) "to lie in wait for, watch, observe," from a- "to" (see ad-) + waitier "to watch" (see wait (v.)). Originally especially with a hostile sense. Related: Awaited; awaiting.
- verb wait with expectation
- Now they neared the foot of the shaft where the rest of the party seemed to await them.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Both will afford me encouragement and support in the vicissitudes which yet await me.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- But Posthumus will not await the proof for which he has asked.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- I stopped, thinking that as good a place as any to await developments.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- Having stabled the horses as I was bidden, I came back here to await them.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- When be spoke, she was to answer frankly, and await the intimation of his will.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- She had sent Roden on a fool's errand to Park Straat to await her return there.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- We feel it in the financial enigmas which even yet await solution.
- Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle
- Make neither commotion nor scandal, and await your opportunity.
- Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
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