Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
awaited
IPA transcription: [əw'eɪtɪd]
adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
anticipated, awaited(p), hoped-for
Meaning:
expected hopefully
Usage examples
Long have I awaited thee!'
He awaited the onset of the bulls.
The reception which awaited him in England was at first extremely cold.
The clerks at the tables laid down their pens, and awaited the explosion in a sort of terror.
I soon reached the little town where the maiden dwelt; but there fresh difficulties awaited me.
Vancouver then visited the presidio at San Francisco, and thence proceeded to Monterey, where Quadra awaited him.
But she would now cross him--dear man--and his late habits, out of the list of riddles about Tilling which awaited solution.
It is remarkable that she seems to have had more than a mere apprehension, almost an assured foreboding, of what awaited her.
A couple of jack-rabbits, run in off the prairie, could not have been more innocent of what awaited them than were Lena and I.
Dorani bowed her head silently as she took the lute, and passed with the fairy out of the great gate, where the stool awaited them.