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Awaiting vs Awaited - What's the difference?

awaiting | awaited |

As verbs the difference between awaiting and awaited

is that awaiting is while awaited is (await).

awaiting

English

Verb

(head)
  • awaited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (await)

  • await

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (formal) To wait for.
  • * Milton
  • Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • To expect.
  • To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
  • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
  • * Milton
  • O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
  • To wait on, serve or attend.
  • To watch, observe.
  • To wait (on or upon).
  • To wait; to stay in waiting.
  • Synonyms

    * (wait for) wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound)

    Usage notes

    * As await means to wait for'', it is not followed by "for". ''*I am awaiting for your reply is therefore incorrect.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A waiting for; ambush.
  • (label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
  • *:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
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