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inquire after

verb
  1. To ask about the health of (someone). (US, transitive)
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He was then, he said, on his way to Longbourn on purpose to inquire after her.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 80 · B2
That he should even speak to her was amazing!--but to speak with such civility, to inquire after her family!
Pride and Prejudice, p. 282 · B2
His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 21 · B2
It was Mercédès, who, hearing no news of her lover, had come unobserved to inquire after him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 84 · C1

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