Crossword Dictionary
EXPECT
expect - v
consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"
look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in March"
Synonyms
await, forecast, foresee, hope, predict, suppose, take, think, apprehend, assume, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, divine, envisage, feel, figure, foreknow, gather
Examples
Sometimes I come in for lunch and sometimes I'd expect you to pack me a lunch.
With the rest of her life in disarray, she didn't expect her apartment to look … normal.
Deidre didn't expect to see it, not after how he'd treated her the past few days.
Etymology
1550s, "wait, defer action," from Latin expectare/exspectare "await, look out for; desire, hope, long for, anticipate; look for with anticipation," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + spectare "to look," frequentative of specere "to look at" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe").