expectant
/ɪkˈspɛktənt/ adjective C1- Marked by expectation. · the expectant hush before the performance
- Pregnant. · an expectant mother
- Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
- A triage classification for a patient in a mass casualty event with injuries so severe they are unlikely to survive even with maximum medical care. · Do you agree the patient is expectant, or is there something we can do to save her?
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And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
His brother and I sat expectant.
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