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asking out

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

Meaning of ask out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To invite somebody, especially on a date.
    • How do I ask her out?

Questions about asking out

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

Words near asking out in the dictionary

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

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