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waited and saw

waited and saw is the simple past of wait and see.

Meaning of wait and see

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.

Questions about waited and saw

What is waited and saw the simple past of?
Waited and saw is the simple past of wait and see.

Words near waited and saw in the dictionary

  1. Waitby
  2. Waitchie
  3. waite
  4. waited
  5. waited a minute
  6. waited and saw
  7. waited and seen
  8. waited around
  9. waited for
  10. waited for Godot
  11. waited for the ball to drop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waited and saw (page history and authors); wait and see (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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