inquire
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
inquire (inquires, present participle inquiring; past and past participle inquired) (ambitransitive)
- (intransitive, US) To ask (about something).
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0124 ↗:
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
- (intransitive) To make an inquiry or an investigation.
- (transitive, obsolete) To call; to name.
- Canute had his portion from the rest, The which he call'd Canutium, for his hire, Now Cantium, which Kent we commonly inquire.
- frain qual dialect or obsolete
- French: enquêter, renseigner
- German: erkundigen, nachfragen
- Portuguese: inquirir
- Russian: спра́шивать
- Spanish: investigar, informarse
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