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asking in

asking in is the present participle and gerund of ask in.

Meaning of ask in

Verb

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

  1. To invite someone to enter one's house.
    • We were getting cold talking on the doorstep, so I asked him in.

Questions about asking in

What is asking in the present participle and gerund of?
Asking in is the present participle and gerund of ask in.

Words near asking in in the dictionary

  1. asking for it
  2. asking for someone's hand in marriage
  3. asking for the moon
  4. asking for trouble
  5. asking how high when someone says jump
  6. asking in
  7. Asking Jeeves
  8. asking out
  9. asking over
  10. asking price
  11. asking prices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asking in (page history and authors); ask in (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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