ask
verb (used with object)
to put a question to; inquire of.
unasking
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a word derived from
ask.
Example Sentences
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I have no intention of unasking him, I just need to know … how do I tell my biological father?
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2019
Did this cold hand unasking want relieve, Or wake the lyre to every rapturous sound?
From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel
The mystic music calls to them, and they follow, heedless and unasking where.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
In sweet trust, asking or unasking, we abide ever in Thee.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
She moves among us in the most self-possessed, unasking spirit that was ever held by a girl of twenty-two.
From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen
