noun

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A waiting for; ambush.

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Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

verb

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To wait for.

example

I await your reply to my letter.

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To expect.

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To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

example

Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.

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To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.

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To watch, observe.

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To wait; to stay in waiting.

Examples of await in a Sentence

I'll await your call.

I must await word of the messengers.

Now I was the one to anxiously await contact.

Sofia pulled over to the side of the road to await the text and load the address into the car's GPS.

Tell it to stop and await my orders.

Her body shook from the inside out before they stepped into the chilly night to await her fate.

After a short detention in a police cell, an offender, unless disposed of summarily, passes into one of His Majesty's prisons, there to await his trial at sessions or assizes.

He returned to the house to await Darian, not surprised to see Bianca's black and white cat darting down the stairs.

Lydia Larkin spun out of the meadow in a cloud of dust, leaving Dean to await its dissipation before following in his open vehicle.

At the same time it should be remembered that many points await elucidation, and it is unwise to assume conclusions in advance of the evidence.

The lot fell upon Hesione, who was chained to a rock to await the monster's coming.

We await the outcome of this early in the New Year.

This church, decorated with elaborate symbolism, was styled the "Ark of the Covenant," and in it the elect were to await the coming of the Lord.

Awe-inspiring views of dramatic mountain passes and snow-capped peaks await at every turn.

The point is not to fill guests up, but satisfy them just enough as they await the start of the dinner.

The plants and animals await study and classification.

Later in the year Theodore became more civil, and the British party on arrival at the king's camp in Damot, on the 25th of January 1866, were received with all honour, and were afterwards sent to Kwarata, on Lake Tsana, there to await the arrival of the captives.

Taken to England to await ransom, John was at first installed in the Savoy Palace, then at Windsor, Hertford, Somerton, and at last in the Tower.

Sheltered by him they could await foreign succour or a reaction at home.

The other men go back to their homes or to the factories in the cities, where they await the harvesting and threshing season.

The question, however, is one of much difficulty, and the exact course of the reaction appears to await solution.

These were carried at the first rush, and the troops were ordered to lie down and await orders.

Primitive Inhabitants.The origin and character of the early inhabitants of the Peninsula are unknown; recent conjectures on the subject, which have been many, are more bold than probable, and we must await the result of further excavations of prehistoric sites and further inquiries into the native inscriptions before we can hope for much certainty.

Only in love with spirituality I await to be placed in my eternal abode, Which Allah has promised His servants.

He carries her to the infirmary to await an ambulance to take her for an X-ray.

Any plans to excavate a selected oval barrow would need to await the outcome of the initial study and the identification of suitable examples.

My second, as I saw a long black beard against a steel cuirass, was to halt and await him.

Further advances in the field await the development of safe, effective drugs that will enhance fibrinolysis.

My longing grows for you grows fierce, Breathlessly, I await you.

Tree buyers camped outside a shopping center hours before dawn on Saturday to await a shipment of 130 noble firs flown in from Oregon.

Their capacity to cope with the trials which await them in Malaysia will be seriously impaired.

Harsh penalties await any organization with an established duty of care that neglects these precautions.

It architecture was published in 1982, tho we still await publication of the finds which will clarify aspects of the dating.

It is laid into the ground to await the rebirth of the person into the next life.

In what more perfectly named village could a queen of whodunits await the resurrection?

All the way through The Sixth Sense you eagerly await revelation; shots of the depression pills and the cellar door demand explanation.

Wed 18th November - Took a day off work today to await installation of digital satellite.

It will join a few others in cold storage to await transportation to the show.

In spite of the fact that he was pursued by the armies of four Powers, he succeeded in reaching San Marino; but his force melted away and, after hiding in the marshes of Ravenna, he fled across the peninsula, assisted by nobles, peasants and priests, to the Tuscan coast, whence he reached Piedmont and eventually America, to await a new call to fight for Italy (see GARIBALDI).

As opposed to Jaures, he contended that the Socialists should co-operate actively with the Radicals in all matters of reform, and not stand aloof to await the complete fulfilment of their ideals.

The interpretation of this dialogue which first suggests itself is that the prophet is referring to wickedness within the nation, which is to be punished by the Chaldaeans as a divine instrument; in the process, the tyranny of the instrument itself calls for punishment, which the prophet is bidden to await in patient fidelity.

These teachers, genuinely touched with a sense of the scantiness of our knowledge, of our confidence in abstract terms, of the insecurity of our alleged "facts," case-histories and observations, alienated from traditional dogmatisms and disgusted by meddlesome polypharmacy - enlightened, moreover, by the issue of cases treated by means such as the homoeopathic, which were practically "expectant" - urged that the only course open to the physician, duly conscious of his own ignorance and of the mystery of nature, is to put his patient under diet and nursing, and, relying on the tendency of all equilibriums to recover themselves under perturbation, to await events (Vis medicatrix naturae).

In the English Mint the pyx is the chest in which are placed one coin from every 15 lb of newly coined gold and one from every 60 lb of newly coined silver to await the "trial of the pyx" (see Mint).

While advising Congress to " abstain from the introduction of those exciting topics of sectional character which have hitherto produced painful apprehensions in the public mind," he favoured the admission of California as a free state, and counselled the legislators to await the action of the people of New Mexico and Utah upon the slavery question.

They tell me that if the fox would remain in the bosom of the frozen earth he would be safe, or if he would run in a straight line away no foxhound could overtake him; but, having left his pursuers far behind, he stops to rest and listen till they come up, and when he runs he circles round to his old haunts, where the hunters await him.

Then we await the resurrection at the rapture of the church.

Fishing for the camera, I scuttled off across the ridge to await the sunrise.

I let the Montrose go (she is heading across toward Wemyss Bay) and await the tardy arrival of Saint Columba.

These now await a trial fit, the tongue & groove boarding for the vestibule ceiling has been cut.

Some of the best gifts you'll receive as you await the arrival of your baby are baby books.

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