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Synonyms for await
əˈweɪtawait

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. awaitverb

    To wait for.

    I await your reply to my letter.

    Synonyms:
    wait for, anticipate, listen

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. await

    To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

    Synonyms:
    abide, anticipate, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

    Antonyms:
    abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

    Preposition:
    Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. expect, look, await, waitverb

    look forward to the probable occurrence of

    "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"

    Synonyms:
    count, search, appear, depend, hold back, seem, carry, hold off, front, reckon, look, gestate, wait, bet, attend, require, anticipate, waitress, take care, have a bun in the oven, face, ask, calculate, expect, bear, see

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. awaitverb

    Synonyms:
    expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for

  2. awaitverb

    Synonyms:
    attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "await":

    expect, wait, awaiting, awaits

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How to use await in a sentence?

  1. Susannah Kintish:

    All eyes will be on the government as businesses await legislation on how to categorize their workforce – something which could still be a matter of years away.

  2. Vladimir Putin:

    We'd anxiously await mother to cook us a meal, which Jeb Bush never did, if you call pouring a little Hormel out of the box into a boiling pot of water cooking, then Jeb Bush did cook.

  3. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton:

    I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified, i'm going to let whatever this inquiry is to go forward and we'll await the outcome of it.

  4. Per Lennerbrant:

    I do not want to speculate on whether they will be convicted or acquitted, we will have to await the court's ruling.

  5. Briton Sebastian Coe:

    I will await The WADA report but I think the focus of those allegations was about the ability of people to be in a position to manipulate systems and that is what we will look at very carefully, if The WADA report is found to be the case, then clearly we need to have systems in place that are not just about secure systems but people inside those systems being secure and proper people.


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