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ask around

ask around verb: to enquire of different people about something.

Verb

ask around (third-person singular simple present asks around, present participle asking around, simple past and past participle asked around)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To enquire of different people about something.
    • I don't know the answer to that, but maybe someone else does – I'll ask around.
    • So a concom has to look twice, ask around, and gather information judiciously.1986 June, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, “GoB Criteria”, in The Mad 3 Party, number 12, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023, page 18

ask around meaning in Tamil

ask around in Tamil

அழைப்பு விடுத்தல்

Forms of ask around

third-person singular presentasks around
present participleasking around
past participleasked around
pastasked around

Questions about ask around

What does ask around mean?
Ask around means to enquire of different people about something.
What is ask around in Tamil?
Ask around in Tamil is அழைப்பு விடுத்தல். See Ask around meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ask around?
Ask around is a verb.
What is the past tense of ask around?
The past tense of ask around is asked around.

Words near ask around in the dictionary

  1. ask a silly question, get a silly answer
  2. ask a stupid question
  3. Ask a Stupid Question Day
  4. ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer
  5. ask after
  6. ask around
  7. ask back
  8. ask box
  9. ask boxes
  10. ask for
  11. ask for it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ask around (page history and authors); ask around (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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