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waiting out

waiting out is the present participle and gerund of wait out.

Meaning of wait out

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To wait through (something): wait (through) till the end; patiently endure.

Questions about waiting out

What is waiting out the present participle and gerund of?
Waiting out is the present participle and gerund of wait out.

Words near waiting out in the dictionary

  1. waiting on hand, foot and finger
  2. waiting on someone hand and foot
  3. waiting on someone hand, foot and finger
  4. waiting on tables
  5. waiting one's turn
  6. waiting out
  7. waiting period
  8. waiting periods
  9. waiting room
  10. waiting rooms
  11. waiting shed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waiting out (page history and authors); wait out (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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