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ASK

ask - v 
make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan" 
direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question" 
address a question to and expect an answer from; "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother" 

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Synonyms

catechize, grill, inquire (of), interrogate, query, question, quiz

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Examples

“I didn't ask about his family tree.”

“You must ask him about every small thing?”

“I've got to ask a question; are we from the same planet?”

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Etymology

Old English ascian "ask, call for an answer; make a request," from earlier ahsian, from Proto-Germanic *aiskojanan (source also of Old Saxon escon, Old Frisian askia "request, demand, ask," Middle Dutch eiscen, Dutch eisen "to ask, demand," Old High German eiscon "to ask (a question)," German heischen "to ask, demand"), from PIE *ais- "to wish, desire" (source also of Sanskrit icchati "seeks, desires," Armenian aic "investigation," Old Church Slavonic iskati "to seek," Lithuanian ieÅ¡kau, ieÅ¡koti "to seek").

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