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wait and see

wait and see verb: to await the course of events before taking action.

Verb

wait and see (third-person singular simple present waits and sees, present participle waiting and seeing, simple past waited and saw, past participle waited and seen)

  1. (intransitive) To await the course of events before taking action.
    • If in doubt, just wait and see.

wait and see meaning in Punjabi

wait and see in Punjabi

to wait and see
ویکھنا vekhṇā

Forms of wait and see

third-person singular presentwaits and sees
present participlewaiting and seeing
pastwaited and saw
past participlewaited and seen

Questions about wait and see

What does wait and see mean?
Wait and see means to await the course of events before taking action.
What is wait and see in Punjabi?
Wait and see in Punjabi is ویکھنا (vekhṇā). See Wait and see meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is wait and see?
Wait and see is a verb.
What is the past tense of wait and see?
The past tense of wait and see is waited and saw.

Words near wait and see in the dictionary

  1. waists
  2. waistwrap
  3. waistwraps
  4. wait
  5. wait a minute
  6. wait and see
  7. wait around
  8. wait for
  9. wait for Godot
  10. wait for it
  11. wait for the ball to drop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wait and see (page history and authors); ویکھنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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