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Asking

noun

1.

The verbal act of requesting. Synonym: request.

Ask

verb

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

1.

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

2.

Make a request or demand for something to somebody.

3.

Direct or put; seek an answer to.

4.

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"

5.

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

6.

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"

7.

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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"Asking" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Wellford—I do forgive; for Heaven knows I wish him no harm; but I cannot forget: that is asking too much." ...

— Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them • T. S. Arthur

... tension existed in all the American settlements, because word was spread that England had sent a ship to oust us. Then came to myself and certain others at Oregon City messengers from peace-loving Doctor McLaughlin, asking us to join him in a little celebration in honor of the arrival of her ...

— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough

... Twain and Joe Twichell visited their friend Lieut. Wood at West Point, where they learned that Wood, as Adjutant, had under his control a small printing establishment. On Mark's return to Hartford, Wood received a letter asking if he would do Mark a great favor by printing something he had written, which he did not care to entrust to the ordinary printer. Wood replied that he would be glad to oblige. On April 3, 1882, Mark ...

— 1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors • Mark Twain

... from him; and then she had ceased, with a dull sense of loss and disappointment, to expect any answer at all. Her mother inquired briskly every day if her letter had come and urged her to write a note asking if he had received it, for he might be waiting for it all this time, but shyness and pride forbade that, and afterward his mother called and spoke of something that he must have read in that letter. She felt how she must have colored, and was glad that her father called her, at that moment, ...

— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin

... the feat lay in its newness and peculiarity. The hunters had often fired at the mark held in one another's hands. There were few who would like to carry it on their head. How, then, was Rube to "take the shine out o' that Injun's shot"? This was the question that each was asking the other, and which was at length put ...

— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

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