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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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... not know how unmaidenly this was. And of course at St. Catharine's when they taught us how to enter and leave rooms and how to act in society and at the table, they didn't think to tell us not to ask young men to marry us. I can add with confidence that Kittie James was the only girl who ever did. I asked the rest afterwards, and they were deeply shocked ...

— Different Girls • Various

... that have resulted in the present prejudice against them must be relegated to the background. The corporations must come out into the open and see and be seen. They must take the public into their confidence and ask for what they want, and no more, and be prepared to explain satisfactorily what advantage will accrue to the public if they are given their desires; for they are permitted to exist not that they may make money solely, but that ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... ask for dates in their history, we are almost entirely at sea. The traditions, in this respect, are almost worthless. So, all that we shall attempt to do, is to present some of the thoughts of our scholars as to the probable ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... moon's intoxication, we thirst for something beyond ourselves, and the mind flows outward to a natural immensity; but if we have drunk from the hot cup of the sun, our own fullness awakens, we desire little, for wherever one goes one's heart goes too; and if any ask what music is the sweetest, we can but answer, as Finn answered, "what happens." And yet the songs and stories that have come from either influence are a part, neither less than the other, of the pleasure that is ...

— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory

... Long in thy shackels, liberty I ask not from these walls, but thee; Left for awhile anothers bride, To fancy all the ...

— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace

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