The difference between Await and Expect
When used as verbs, await means to wait for, whereas expect means to look for (mentally).
Await is also noun with the meaning: a waiting for.
check bellow for the other definitions of Await and Expect
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Await as a verb (transitive, formal):
To wait for.
Examples:
"I await your reply to my letter."
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Await as a verb (transitive):
To expect.
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Await as a verb (transitive):
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
Examples:
"Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell."
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Await as a verb (transitive, intransitive):
To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
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Await as a verb (intransitive):
To watch, observe.
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Await as a verb (intransitive):
To wait; to stay in waiting.
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Await as a noun (obsolete):
A waiting for; ambush.
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Await as a noun (obsolete):
Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
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Expect as a verb:
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
Examples:
"I expect to receive wages.  I expect that the troops will be defeated."
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Expect as a verb:
To consider obligatory or required.
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Expect as a verb:
To consider reasonably due.
Examples:
"You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week."
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Expect as a verb (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple):
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
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Expect as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To wait for; to await.
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Expect as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To wait; to stay.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sandys"