inquire
/ɪnˈkwaɪɹ/ verb B2- To make an inquiry or an investigation. · Police are already inquiring into the incident.
He/she/it inquires · Past inquired · Past participle inquired · -ing form inquiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- inquire
- He/she/it
- inquires
- Past
- inquired
- Past participle
- inquired
- -ing form
- inquiring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“Does it pain you much?” inquired Chandler.
Cuthbert?” Miss Lucilla Harris inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both hands.
Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquiring for garden rakes in the middle of December.
When Miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully inquired: “Anything else tonight, Mr.
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