inquire

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To seek information by asking a question: inquired about prices.
2. v. To make an inquiry or investigation: inquire into the extent of the corruption.
3. v. To ask about.
4. v. To ask: "I am free to inquire what a work of art means to me” ( Bernard Berenson). See Synonyms at ask.
5. inquire after To ask about the health or condition of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To search for; seek out; make investigation concerning.
2. To ask about (a thing or person); seek knowledge of by asking.
3. To call; name.
4. To ask of; question.
5. Synonyms Ask, Inquire, Question, etc. See ask.
6. To seek for knowledge or information; make inquisition or investigation; use means for discovering or learning something.
7. To ask for information; seek knowledge of something by asking a question or questions: as, I will inquire about it.
8. n. Inquiry; search; investigation.

Wiktionary

1. v. US To ask (about something).
2. v. To make an inquiry or an investigation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
2. v. To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knowledge; to make examination.
3. v. To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.
4. v. obsolete To call or name.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. have a wish or desire to know something
2. v. conduct an inquiry or investigation of
3. v. inquire about