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Expect

verb

(past & past part. expected; pres. part. expecting)

Regard something as probable or likely. Synonym: anticipate.

Consider obligatory; request and expect. Synonyms: ask, require. "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" , "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

Look forward to the probable occurrence of. Synonyms: await, look, wait. "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"

Consider reasonable or due.

Look forward to the birth of a child.

Be pregnant with. Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven. "The are expecting another child in January" , "I am carrying his child"

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"Expect" Quotes from Famous Books

... nevertheless? Shall not He who cried, "My God! my God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?" be justified by having it proved to all the world that God had not forsaken Him? But we surely cannot be more just than God. If we expect God to do right, we shall surely "find that He has done right, and more right than we could expect or dream. Therefore we may believe—I say that we must believe, if we be truly reasonable beings—what the Bible tells us; that Christ, who suffered ...

— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... mother returned from Brampton, where she had been nursing a sick lady. Right glad were Johnny and Alie to see her sooner than they had ventured to expect. She brought them a few oranges, to show her remembrance of them. Nor was the old sailor forgotten; carefully she drew from her bag and presented ...

— False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve • Unknown

... Tanqueray, if their cases had been reversed, could have taken into his Jane's husband. She might have expected Tanqueray to meet her husband, to shake hands with him, to dine with him, but not to feel or to profess affection for him. So Tanqueray would probably expect her to call upon his wife, to receive her, to dine with her, perhaps, but it would ...

— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair

... unchangeableness of his opinions and his immutable abiding by his first statements. After one glance at his square countenance, his steady noncommittal black eyes, the upward bulldog cant of a somewhat massive nose, the firm compression of his long thin lips, one would no more expect him to depart from the conditions of a conclusion than that a signpost would enter into argument and in view of the fatigue of a traveler mitigate and ...

— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock

... I expect will taste good too. However, you look after the moon, father, and leave me and the frying-pan to play ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

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