expect

verb

1. 1

   To predict or believe that something will happen

   when you least expect it

   I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.

   The hostage is expected to be released later today.

   I expect it'll rain this weekend, but I hope it won't.

2. 2

   To consider obligatory or required.

   England expects that every man will do his duty.

   I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.

3. 3

   To consider reasonably due.

   My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.

   You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

4. 4

   To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

   We are expecting our third in June.

   “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

5. 5

   obsoleteTo wait for; to await.

   Let's in, and there expect their coming.

   The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.

6. 6

   obsoleteTo wait; to stay.

   I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call

Forms

past tense

expected

past participle

expected

present participle

expecting

third person singular

expects