to try to obtain by requesting - (intransitive)
to behave in a provocative manner that is regarded as inviting (trouble): she's asking for trouble, you're asking for it
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'ask for' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Herodias
- account
- advertise
- appeal
- ask
- ask after
- beg
- bespeak
- bide
- bite
- bold-faced
- call
- chugger
- compete
- could
- counsel
- create
- decide
- demand
- desire
- effrontery
- forespeak
- go
- hat
- help
- hitchhike
- impetrate
- milquetoast
- opinion
- peace
- perquisite
- postulant
- postulate
- quarter
- request
- require
- runaround
- screw
- seek
- supplicate
- take
- timing
- touch