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say it: in-KWAHYR
inquire is a verb meaning "address a question to and expect an answer from". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/ — in-KWAHYR. It carries 3 recorded senses.
address a question to and expect an answer from
“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”
conduct an inquiry or investigation of
“The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities”
“inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inquire come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.