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inquire
[ in-kwahyuhr ]
verb (used without object)
- to seek information by questioning; ask:
to inquire about a person.
Synonyms: query, examine, investigate
- to make investigation (usually followed by into ):
to inquire into the incident.
Synonyms: query, examine, investigate
verb (used with object)
- to seek to learn by asking:
to inquire a person's name.
Synonyms: query, examine, investigate
- Obsolete. to seek.
- Obsolete. to question (a person).
verb phrase
- to ask about the state of health or condition of:
Friends have been calling all morning to inquire after you.
inquire
/ ɪnˈkwaɪə /
verb
- to seek information; ask
she inquired about rates of pay
she inquired his age
- foll by of to ask (a person) for information
I'll inquire of my aunt when she is coming
- introften foll byinto to make a search or investigation
Derived Forms
- inˈquirer, noun
Other Words From
- in·quir·a·ble adjective
- in·quir·er noun
- re·in·quire verb reinquired reinquiring
- un·in·quired adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of inquire1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
I do not believe we have a current count of fugitives for publication, but will inquire.
Everyone, of course, was too polite to inquire about the embarrassing number of absentees.
I inquire if I may touch it and find the texture soft and creamy.
Their silence leaves conventional physicians to fend for themselves when patients inquire about it.
The court will not “inquire into the validity of a religious tenet.”
I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed.
Elmer Spiker interrupted to inquire whether the turtles I had seen were "black-legs, red-legs, or yaller-legs."
"I am going to New York," he said, not giving me time to inquire into his strange proceeding.
In continuation of this topic, may I inquire when and where the two following bishops, deprived in 1690, died?
And I shall send my emissaries into the district of Montelimar to inquire into these disturbances you tell of.
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