expect
About 43.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To predict or believe that something will happen
when you least expect it
- verb To consider obligatory or required.
- verb To consider reasonably due.
My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.
- verb To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
We are expecting our third in June.
- verb To wait for; to await.
- verb To wait; to stay.
Similar words
anticipate require ask look await wait carry gestate bear foresee
Often followed by
to that the a from it you them me
Word family
expectable expectably expected expectedly expectedness expectednesses expecting expects
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