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await definition

await (ə wāt′)

transitive verb

  1. to wait for; expect
  2. to be in store for; be ready for
  3. Obsolete to watch for so as to confront

Etymology: ME awaiten < Anglo-Norm awaitier < a- (L ad), to + waitier, wait)

intransitive verb

to wait

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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