Expectant: alternatives and connections

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

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Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

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Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

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Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To wait for; to await.

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To wait for; to await.

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The act of expecting ; expectation.

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The act of expecting ; expectation.

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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Anticipating; expectant; -- with of.

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Anticipating, or containing anticipation.

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Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

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The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

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Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.

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Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, lengt…

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Having the heaves.

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Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious;…

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