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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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— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various

... author's name and its title, but I remember well an awful prophecy that it contained about the future of our muscular system. Human perfection, the writer said, means ability to cope with the environment; but the environment will more and more require mental power from us, and less and less will ask for bare brute strength. Wars will cease, machines will do all our heavy work, man will become more and more a mere director of nature's energies, and less and less an exerter of energy on his own account. So that, if the homo sapiens of the future can only digest ...

— A Book of Exposition • Homer Heath Nugent

... know against even the prejudices of those I wish to serve, however lofty my intention was and however great the benefit to them in the end, it would still be a sacrifice in the present." He saw his own miserable logic and affected didactics, but he went on lightly, "But why do you ask such a question? You haven't any one in your mind ...

— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte

... you have said so," Ellerey answered. "Indeed, I can even now ask one. Only this afternoon Lord Cloverton was pleased to tell me that he looked upon me as an enemy. Should you discover anything which might affect ...

— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner

... realization of the number of the invaders was breeding in the Belgians a placating spirit. If a soldier fell out of line at the door of a house to ask for water, all within that house strove to bring the water to him. If an officer, returning from a small sortie into other streets, checked up to ask the way to rejoin his command, a dozen eager arms waved in chorus to point out the proper direction, and a babble of solicitous voices arose ...

— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

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