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Expect   /ɪkspˈɛkt/   Listen
Expect

verb
(past & past part. expected; pres. part. expecting)
1.
Regard something as probable or likely.  Synonym: anticipate.
2.
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"
3.
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.  Synonyms: await, look, wait.  "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"
4.
Consider reasonable or due.
5.
Look forward to the birth of a child.
6.
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



... sin is happy. But see what the eternal law establisheth. If thou apply thy mind to the better, thou needest no judge to reward thee: thou hast joined thyself to the more excellent things. If thou declinest to that which is worse, never expect any other to punish thee: thou hast put thyself in a miserable estate; as if by turns thou lookest down to the miry ground, and up to heaven, setting aside all outward causes, by the very law of sight thou seemest sometime to be in the dirt, and ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

... will not expect to hear that Miss Bremer, a maiden lady of forty, retains a very large share of youthful bloom; but, independently of that, she is really any thing but handsome. Her thin wrinkled physiognomy is, however, rendered agreeable by its good-humoured ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various

... but they must take good care not to break off the arrowheads when they swallow and withdraw them." Such is the origin of the dance of the kátso-yisçà n, or great plumed arrow. As they bade him good-bye, one of them said to the Navajo: "We look for you," i.e., "We expect you to return to us," an intimation to him that when he left the earth he should return to the gods, ...
— The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony • Washington Matthews

... Florence, "but they were saying it. I don't mean they were saying it together; I heard one say it one time and the other say it some other time. I think Kitty Silver was saying it about some coloured man. She proba'ly wouldn't want to marry any white man; at least I don't expect she would. She's been married to a couple of coloured men, anyhow; and she was married twice to one of 'em, and the other one died in between. Anyhow, that's what she told me. She weighed over two hunderd pounds the first time she was married, and she weighed over two hunderd-and-seventy ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

... smugglers found that, contrary to what one would expect, their greatest risk was not when landing the goods, but when bringing them across from the Continent. A seizure on land was, at any rate during the first half of the eighteenth century, comparatively rare if they had been able to get away from the sloops and ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton


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