wait

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to wait
waitWe need to wait in line for the tickets.
wait forWe're waiting for the bus.
awaitWe are awaiting the committee's decision.
stayStay there until I get back.
remainPlease remain in your seats until the plane has come to a complete stop.
hang onHang on, I'll be ready in a minute.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Waiting
await
backlogged
bang around
breath
hang
hang around
hover
loiter
lounge
lurking
mark timeidiom
mill
mill around
time and tide wait for no manidiom
twiddle
twiddle your thumbsidiom
wait
wait and seeidiom
wait around
waiting room

Examples of awaiting

awaiting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Due to the backlog of patients awaiting appointments, most people wait a few weeks or even months for a specialist consultation.
For behind the tale told lies one awaiting exposition.
Bodies physical never need be taken for granted as a priori facts merely awaiting archaeological, or any other, confirmation.
This may involve empirical treatment for infection while awaiting definitive results.
It was always 'awaiting a final edit', or 'having captions added'.
The ex-industrial areas + all recognizably 'neighbourhoods' with some residual sense of belonging + are all undergoing transformations or awaiting projects.
Indigenous knowledge, it could be said, is that which is awaiting discovery by scientific and business elites.
The patient and their family can become distressed whilst awaiting radiotherapy.
There seems to me to be a huge spectrum, awaiting research.
The second patient died suddenly at the age of 11 months whilst awaiting correction.
The respective fates awaiting the two groups could therefore not be more dissimilar.
As such, any tasks solely awaiting the completion of the recently completed dependency may be under taken.
Treatment should be started at this stage rather than awaiting the results of culture and assessment of sensitivities of the organism.
There were two main reasons for choosing patients who had received a transplant rather than those awaiting transplant.
Of the 989 reviews, 286 (29%) listed a total of 1,138 trials that were awaiting assessment.
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