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waited for Godot

waited for Godot is the simple past and past participle of wait for Godot.

Meaning of wait for Godot

Verb

wait for Godot (third-person singular simple present waits for Godot, present participle waiting for Godot, simple past and past participle waited for Godot)

  1. (idiomatic) To wait hopelessly.
    • But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule.2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96

Questions about waited for Godot

What is waited for Godot the simple past and past participle of?
Waited for Godot is the simple past and past participle of wait for Godot.

Words near waited for Godot in the dictionary

  1. waited a minute
  2. waited and saw
  3. waited and seen
  4. waited around
  5. waited for
  6. waited for Godot
  7. waited for the ball to drop
  8. waited for the cat to jump
  9. waited for the other shoe to drop
  10. waited in the wings
  11. waited on

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