with bated breath

with bated breath
with bated breath
(holding one's breath) in fear or suspense
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Main Entry:bate
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with bated breath
With breath restrained out of suspense, fear or reverence
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Main Entry:breath

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with bated breath phrase
worried or excited and paying a lot of attention because you want to know what will happen

We waited with bated breath to find out who had won.

Thesaurus: feeling interested and excitedsynonym feeling worried and nervoussynonym
Main entry: bated

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with bated breath
: in a nervous and excited state because you do not know what will happen

They waited for the answer with bated breath. [=they nervously waited for the answer]

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Main Entry:bated
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with bated breath — see bated
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Main Entry:breath

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with bated ˈbreath idiom
(formal) feeling very anxious or excited

We waited with bated breath for the winner to be announced.

Main entry:batedidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • with bated breath — with worry and tension, with suspense, leave me hanging    With bated breath, they waited for news of the men who were trapped in the mine …   English idioms

  • with bated breath — if you wait for something with bated breath, you feel very excited or anxious while you are waiting. His name wasn t by any chance, Max Peters? Helena asked with bated breath. We were waiting with baited breath for the prizes to be announced …   New idioms dictionary

  • with bated breath — adverb /wɪð ˈbeɪtɪd ˈbrɛθ/ Eagerly; with great anticipation. Or | Shall I bend low and in a bondmans key, | With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this; …   Wiktionary

  • with bated breath — worried or excited and paying a lot of attention because you want to know what will happen We waited with bated breath to find out who had won …   English dictionary

  • with bated breath — with halting breath, hesitatingly, barely being able to hold back …   English contemporary dictionary

  • with bated breath — Synonyms and related words: abjectly, anticipatingly, anticipatively, anticipatorily, anxious, apprehensive, apprehensively, aside, bashfully, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, between the teeth, covertly, diffidently,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • with bated breath — in great suspense. → bated …   English new terms dictionary

  • wait with bated breath — wait with suspense, want to know what happens    We waited with bated breath for news of the fallen climber …   English idioms

  • with baited breath — misspelling of with bated breath …   Useful english dictionary

  • with bated breath — idi in a state of suspenseful anticipation …   From formal English to slang

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