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Inquire

To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

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Verb group 2

Ask 84% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Ask 84% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 6

Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Examine 76% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Probe 76% connected

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

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Query 76% connected

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Manner of action 7

Consult 76% connected

To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Interrogate 76% connected

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pry 76% connected

A lever; also, leverage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Query 76% connected

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Spy 76% connected

To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

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Derivationally related 10

Enquirer 74% connected

See Inquirer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Enquirer 74% connected

See Inquirer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Enquiry 74% connected

See Inquiry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Enquiry 74% connected

See Inquiry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inquisitive 74% connected

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.

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Inquisitive 74% connected

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.

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Question 74% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Question 74% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Ask 92% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Enquire 92% connected

See Inquire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Investigate 92% connected

To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and ac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wonder 92% connected

That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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