with+bated+breath
1with bated breath — (holding one s breath) in fear or suspense • • • Main Entry: ↑bate with bated breath With breath restrained out of suspense, fear or reverence • • • Main Entry: ↑breath * * * with bated breath phrase worried or excited and paying a lot of… …
2with 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 …
3with 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 …
4with 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; …
5with 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 …
6with bated breath — with halting breath, hesitatingly, barely being able to hold back …
7with 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,… …
8with bated breath — in great suspense. → bated …
9wait with bated breath — wait with suspense, want to know what happens We waited with bated breath for news of the fallen climber …
10with baited breath — misspelling of with bated breath …
