ascertain
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～ learn or discover with certainty
ascertain
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～ find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
ascertain
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～ establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
ascribe
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～ attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
ask
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～ make a date; "Has he asked you out yet?" "He asekd me to a dance"
ask
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～ require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
ask
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～ consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
ask
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～ 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"
ask
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～ direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"
ask
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～ require or ask for as a price or condition; "He is asking $200 for the table"; "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"
ask
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～ make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan"
asperse
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～ charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"; "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
asphalt
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～ cover with tar or asphalt; "asphalt the driveway"
asphyxiate
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～ be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
asphyxiate
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～ deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
asphyxiate
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～ impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
aspirate
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～ inhale (air, water, etc.)
aspirate
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～ remove by suction; "aspirate the wound"
aspirate
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～ pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds