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Exact Match:

expect

look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in March"

consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"

regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"

look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"

Synonyms:

• account as,
• anticipate,
• apprehend,
• approach,
• aspire to,
• assume,
• await,
• bank on,
• be afraid,
• be destined,
• be fated,
• be imminent,
• be to be,
• be to come,
• believe,
• come,
• come on,
• conceive,
• conclude,
• confide,
• conjecture,
• consider,
• contemplate,
• count,
• count on,
• daresay,
• deduce,
• deem,
• demand,
• desire,
• divine,
• draw near,
• draw on,
• dread,
• dream,
• envisage,
• envision,
• esteem,
• estimate,
• face,
• fancy,
• feel,
• feel confident,
• foreknow,
• foresee,
• foretell,
• gather,
• grant,
• guess,
• harbor the hope,
• have a hunch,
• have an idea,
• have an impression,
• have an inkling,
• have in mind,
• have in view,
• have the idea,
• hold,
• hold as,
• hope,
• hope against hope,
• hope and pray,
• hope for,
• hope in,
• hope to God,
• imagine,
• infer,
• judge,
• keep in view,
• lean upon,
• let,
• let be,
• lie ahead,
• live in hopes,
• look,
• look for,
• look forward to,
• look upon as,
• loom,
• maintain,
• near,
• need,
• nurture the hope,
• opine,
• plan,
• plot,
• predict,
• prefigure,
• presume,
• presuppose,
• presurmise,
• project,
• prophesy,
• provisionally accept,
• reckon,
• reckon on,
• regard,
• rely on,
• repute,
• require,
• rest assured,
• say,
• sense,
• set down as,
• suppose,
• surmise,
• suspect,
• take,
• take for,
• take for granted,
• take it,
• take to be,
• think,
• threaten,
• trow,
• trust,
• understand,
• view as,
• wait for,
• want,
• ween,
• wish