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Expect

//ɪkˈspɛkt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To predict or believe that something will happen ambitransitive

    "when you least expect it"

  2. 2
    be pregnant with wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider obligatory or required.

    "England expects that every man will do his duty."

  4. 4
    look forward to the birth of a child wordnet
  5. 5
    To consider reasonably due.

    "My parents expected too much of me when I was in college."

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  1. 6
    consider reasonable or due wordnet
  2. 7
    To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

    "We are expecting our third in June."

  3. 8
    regard something as probable or likely wordnet
  4. 9
    To wait for; to await. obsolete, transitive

    "Let's in, and there expect their coming."

  5. 10
    look forward to the probable occurrence of wordnet
  6. 11
    To wait; to stay. intransitive, obsolete

    "I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call"

  7. 12
    consider obligatory; request and expect wordnet

Etymology

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

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