Ask

/ɑːsk/ · verb

Meaning

To request or petition..

Definitions by Sense

1. To request or petition.
2. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
3. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
4. To invite.
5. (figurative, chiefly continuous aspect) To indirectly encourage or make more likely (an undesirable outcome).
6. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
7. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
8. An act or instance of asking.

Example Sentences

to ask a question

to ask a riddle

He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

What price are you asking for the house?

It’s asking a lot of this old car to make it all the way up to Scotland.

But in any Exigence of State, like that they are now pressed with, it certainly asks a much longer time to conduct any Design, for the Good of the Common-wealth, to its Maturity and Perfection.

Don’t ask them to the wedding.

Walking around with such an expensive watch is asking to be mugged.

Synonyms for ask

Antonyms for ask

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Word Forms

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