Synset:ask enquire
Examples:
- Ask your teacher about trigonometry
- The children asked me about their dead grandmother
- I inquired about their special today
- He had to ask directions several times
Derivationally Related Form:enquirerenquiryaskerinquiryinquiringinquirer
Hypernyms:communicate intercommunicate
Inherited Hypernyms:askcommunicateinteractact
Direct Hyponyms:confer withconsultinterrogatepryqueryquestion
Full Troponyms:catechizecheck outconsultcross examinedebriefexaminegrillinterpellateinterrogateprypumpquestionquizrequestseekwonder
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s somebody PP | Somebody ---s PP | Somebody ---s somebody | Somebody ---s whether INFINITIVE | Somebody ---s somebody something | They --- them the information (apply to: ask) | They --- whether there was a traffic accident (apply to: enquire, inquire)