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Ask

verb

(past & past part. asked; pres. part. asking)

Inquire about. Synonyms: enquire, inquire. "He had to ask directions several times"

Make a request or demand for something to somebody.

Direct or put; seek an answer to.

Consider obligatory; request and expect. Synonyms: expect, require. "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" , "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

Address a question to and expect an answer from. "The children asked me about their dead grandmother"

Require as useful, just, or proper. Synonyms: call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take. "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

Require or ask for as a price or condition. "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"

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... think it would be very nice to ask her to come to Boston for a week or two, don't you?" suggested Edith Bonner, ...

— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon

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— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes

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— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.

... insect's mental capacity, especially its very retentive memory for places, I was led to ask myself whether it would not be possible to make a suitably-chosen Bee build in any place that I wished, even in my study. And I wanted, for an experiment of this sort, not an individual but a numerous colony. My preference lent towards the ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... in the lobby of the House, and when they chanced to meet each other, they met as friends. Mr. Kennedy had no strong wish to see again in his house the man respecting whom he had ventured to caution his wife; but he was thoughtful; and thinking over it all, he found it better to ask him there. No one must know that there was any reason why Phineas should not come to his house; especially as all the world knew that Phineas had protected him from the garrotters. "Lady Laura is in town now," he said; "you must go and see her ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

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