"wait out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-wait out.ogg Forms: waits out [present, singular, third-person], waiting out [participle, present], waited out [participle, past], waited out [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (To wait through (something); wait (through) till the end; patiently endure): przeczekiwać [imperfective] (Polish), przeczekać [perfective] (Polish), пережидать (perežidatʹ) (Russian)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "To wait through (something); wait (through) till the end; patiently endure",
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