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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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... heart began to thump like a hammer. But there was silence now—silence absolute. All those noises ceased, and it was as if they had never been. Not a sound; the stillness grew oppressive; it was like a weight upon one. All faces were turned toward the door; and one could properly expect that, for most of the people there suddenly realized, no doubt, that they were about to see, in actual flesh and blood, what had been to them before only an embodied prodigy, a word, a ...

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... her, fascinated. She was like no woman he had ever seen, radiating a personality individual and strange. "Aurore," he repeated. "You're not the dawn, you know; not a bit like it." He did not expect her to own to any knowledge of the legend of her name, but she nodded her ...

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