outask

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verb

To ask or proclaim for the last time.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verboutask (third-person singular simple present outasks, present participle outasking, simple past and past participle outasked)

present singular third person outasks · participle present outasking · participle past outasked · past outasked

  1. transitiveTo ask or proclaim for the last time.
  2. transitiveTo announce or publish the banns of marriage of (a couple) in church for the third time.

Origin

From out- + ask. Cognate with Old Frisian utaskia (“to outask”), Danish udæske (“to challenge”).

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