| 单词 | with bated breath |
| 释义 | with bated breathphrase See full dictionary entry for batedIf you wait for something with bated breath, you wait anxiously to find out what will happen. [formal] Every Monday the whole office used to wait with bated breath for his report. We listened with bated breath to Grandma's stories of her travels. with bated breath in British Englishholding one's breath in suspense or fear with bated breath in American English with the breath held in because of fear, excitement, etc. with bated breathfeeling anxious or excited to see what happens next They got the people in the villages interested in what was going to happen, so theywere then watching with bated breath as the experiment began. Examples of 'with bated breath' in a sentence |
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